These weirdos are still around......good grief

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

SAN'A, Yemen - Ongoing clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel leader in the north of the country have killed more than 100 people in the past five days, military officials said Monday.

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About 90 of the dead were in the Yemeni army, including six killed on Monday, an army official said.

Government forces have fired artillery bombardments over the areas where followers of Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi are believed to be hiding out in Saada, about 112 miles north of the capital San'a, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Close to 200 army and police officers have been killed in clashes in recent weeks.

There are no official statistics on rebels casualties, but tribal officials have estimated that more than 100 have been killed since the clashes broke out in late January.

Last week, members of the Yemen Supreme Defense Council voiced concerns, saying the Shiite rebels were receiving funds and assistance from outside countries, according to one of the council's members.

The member, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, did not name the countries. But state-owned newspapers have reported that the government suspects Iran and Libya are backing the rebellion.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh accused the rebels on Monday of being "ignorant forces of darkness who adopted deviant terrorist and racist ideas." They "don't believe in democracy or freedom. They are agents who have sold themselves to harm the nation and its interests," he said, according to the official news agency.

Al-Hawthi denied in an interview with al-Nada, a local independent paper, that his group had Iranian or Libyan links. He accused the government of resorting to violence to end the conflict instead of taking peaceful paths.

The rebels are part of a Shiite Muslim group known as "The Young Faithful Believers" that accuses the government of being corrupt and too close to the West.

Yemen, the ancestral land of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, has largely allied itself with the United States in the war on terror.

The government has been fighting the rebels since June 2004 when rebel Shiite cleric Hussein Badr Eddin al-Hawthi — the brother of the current leader — led his forces in an uprising.

The cleric was killed in clashes with government troops in September 2004. More than 700 officers and police have been killed since then until beginning of the latest round of fighting, which started late last month.

The government had accused Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi of sedition, forming an illegal armed group and inciting anti-American sentiment. His loyalists say authorities have tried to silence the cleric's criticism of corruption.

[foolxume2005]

We dont give a flying fock, you Kufar bastard.

[biko]

his not a kufur bastard but deist bastard...lol

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

We were dealing with these guys when I was assigned to HOA. They're just flat out whacked.

[foolxume2005]

Biko I dont understand why these old white guys wanna chat with young somalis here.

[Padishah]

Apparantly, he finds good conversation with people he considers morons. Don't look to me to explain that oxymoron.

[maria from west side]

Mad Mac is sooooo abscess with Muslims and arabs, look at his threads, comments/posts, 24/7, sad though, get a hobby or something.

[Grant]

[quote="foolxume2005"]Biko I dont understand why these old white guys wanna chat with young somalis here.[/quote]

I can't speak for Mac or Wesley, but it certainly isn't because I consider anyone here a moron. Far from it. You are clearly the smartest of the smart and the luckiest of the lucky. Your very non-Western viewpoints present a stimulating challenge.

Arrogant beyond the point of hubris; stubborn beyond belief and far past logic; racially, religiously and culturally intolerant, Somalis in the Diaspora clearly need a big dose of the larger reality to be most successful both as individuals in the world and as a country or countries operating on the world scene.

I notice that my Yemeni neighbors, whose commmunity has been here in Oakland more than thirty years, appear to be far better adjusted within the larger community, and far less complaining than most Somalis who have been in the West a shorter time. Their ladies wear the hijab and they support a major mosque. But they have fatwas that permit them to pay riib'a for the purchase of family housing and they are permitted to eat the food of Christians and Jews and sell khamri.

I was part of Somalia's initial attempt to enter the twentieth century. It pains me to see what has become of that effort and I am downright pissed that I was cut off from contact with friends and have been prevented all these years from visiting.

There is damn little us old white farts can do but keep in touch and point out the differences in perspective. I for one don't do it because I hate the land or lack respect for the people.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Grant
Speak for yourself man. God only knows how may villages are short of their idiots because they are here.

There are some bright ones, but plenty of dub sand pimps as well.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Grant
Speak for yourself man. God only knows how may villages are short of their idiots because they are here.

There are some bright ones, but plenty of dub sand pimps as well.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Grant
Speak for yourself man. God only knows how may villages are short of their idiots because they are here.

There are some bright ones, but plenty of dub sand pimps as well.

[Grant]

[quote="MAD MAC"]Grant
Speak for yourself man. God only knows how may villages are short of their idiots because they are here.

There are some bright ones, but plenty of dub sand pimps as well.[/quote]

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Mac,

Village idiots don't learn multiple languages and post online with their second or third. Highly intelligent people do get overwhelmed and they do give up on adjusting to new environments and begin to defend anything they associate with personal identity. Some take the easy way out and just start spouting some party line. I can recognize that and don't have a problem with it.

How much of my post did you read? And just what is a "dub sand pimp"?

"I can't speak for Mac or Wesley ........."