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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Difaacayaasha Xuquuqal iinsaanka Oo Carrooga Ku Afuufay Tacadiyadda Musuqmaasuq Iyo Bani-aadaminimo Ee Xukuumadda, Dibad-baxna Ku Baaqay

December 11th, 2012 |

“Waxaynu Ka War-qabnaa In Sanadkii Boqolaal Kun Oo Doolar Oo Tv-ga Qaranka Ka Soo Baxa uu Wiilka Madaxwaynuhu Sodogga U Yahay….”Saleebaan Xuquuq

Hargeysa (Waaheen) Dallada Isku xidhka ururadda xuquuqal sIisaanka Somaliland oo maanta si gaar ah u xusay maalinta caalamiga ah ee xuquuqda aadamaha oo adduunka oo dhan laga xusay, ayaa soo bandhigay gabood-fallada lidka ku ah xuquuqda aadamaha ee dalka ka dhacay intii xukuumadda Siilaanyo tallada dalka haysay.

Difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku, sidoo kale waxay ka hadleen musuqmaasuqa dalka ka jira oo ay sheegeen inuu marayo heer qoyska Madaxtooyaddu ku lug leeyahay in boqolaal kun oo doolar sanad walba la lunsado.

Guddoomiyaha difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanka Somaliland Saleebaan Ismaaciil Bullaale (Saleebaan Xuquuq) oo Munaasibadan ugu horeyn ka hadlay ayaa faahfaahiyey gabood-fallada xuquuqda aadamaha ku xun ee Somaliland ka dhacay mudada uu Madaxwayne Siilaanyo xilka hayo, waxaanu yidhi “Tan iyo intii tallada dalka ay qabsatay xukuumadda Madaxwayne Siilaanyo waxaad moodaa in xad-gudubyadda xuquuqal Iisaanku ay aad u sii kordhayeen, xadhiga sharci darada ah ee muwaadiniinta, iyadda oo aan loo marin Maxkamada wuxuu noqday mid aad u badan, waxaana imika xabsiga Madheera ku jira 16 qof oo ciidamadda qaranku ka soo qabteen Lawyacado, maxkamad lama gaynin, waxaasi ayaa la idinku haystaana lama odhan, dhowr jeer oo hore waanu ka hadalnay, waxaanu xukuumadda leenahay haddii ay dambi leeyihiin maxkamad hala geeyo, haddii kalena hala siidaayo. Xad-gudubyadda waaweyn ee dalka ka dhacay waxa ka mid ah saxaafadda Madaxa-banaan oo inta la xidhay ama la jidh-dilay waxay kor u dhaaftay 86 Wariye (inta xukuumaddani tallada haysay)”

Saleebaan Xuquuq, waxa kale oo uu kak hadlay Musuqmaasuq uu sheegay inuu Tv-ga qaranka ka gaysto nin uu Madaxwayne Siilaanyo sodog u yahay “Musuqmaasuqa oo kale, hay’adda caalamiga ah ee Transparency International war-bixinteedii ugu dambaysay waxay inagu dartay waddamada ugu musuqmaasuqa badan, difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku waxay xog-ogaal u noqdeen in heerka musuqmaasuqu uu ka gaadhsiisan yahay Somaliland ay ku lug leeyihiin xitaa qoyska Madaxwaynuhu” ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku daray in difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku ay Boobe Yuusuf Ducaalle u aqoonsadeen muwaadin daah furay xogo shacabka ka qarsoonaa “Difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku waxay sanadkan Boobe Yuusuf Ducaale u aqoonsan yihiin inuu daah furay xog ka qarsoonayd bulshada Somaliland iyo dadkii ay doorteen sida ay hawlaha u wadaan xaqiiqada uu ka sheegay, waxaynu ka war-qabnaa in sanadkii boqolaal kun oo doolar oo ka soo baxa Tv-ga qaranka ay Mushahar u qaataan dhowr iyo toban qof oo London jooga oo shakhsi loo dhiibo oo aan qaan-sheeg laga soo celin (Receipt), oo Inanka Madaxwaynuhu sodogga u yahay ku lug leeyahay, waana wax cad, waxaanu u aqoonsanahay Boobe Yuusuf Ducaalle inuu yahay qof u qalma in la siiyo shahaadada xoriyadda hadalka oo u dhaqdhaqaaqa inay dadku xog helaan”

Saleebaan Xuquuq, waxa kale oo uu ka hadlay “Waxa kale oo ka mid ah gabood-falada dhacay aar-goosiga siyaasiga ah, hal-doorkii dalka iyo dadkii aqoonta lahaa ee Somaliland u shaqeyn jiray dawladda waa laga xaaqay, taasi waxay keentay in Imtixaanaadkii fashilmo, waxa kale oo ka mid ah doorashaddan la isku haysto, oo wixii intaasi oo sanadood dadku wax walba u soo hureen ay maanta tacab khasaar u eg-tahay”ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku darau “Xuquuqal Iisaanka Somaliland, maanta waxa uu marayaa heer laga war-waro”ayuu yidhi.

Guddoomiyihii hore ee komiishanka xuquuqal Iisaanka Qaranka Somaliland Axmed Yuusuf Cismaan oo isna halkaa ka hadlay ayaa si aad ah Komiishanka ugu dhaliilay go’aanka ah in dib loo tiriyo codadkii laga dhiibtay degmooyinka Hargeysa, waxaanu sheegay in taasi keenayso in dadka la isku dillo.

Axmed Yuusuf Cismaan oo arimahaa ka hadlayaana waxa uu yidhi “Waxaan idiin sheegayaa in doorashadii Somaliland ka dhacday ay u dhowdahay inay saqiirto ayna u sabab u yihiin taariikhduna ay xusi doonto komiishanka maanta xilka haya, waa nasiib daro in komiishankii doorashaddu isticmaalo ciidamada qaranka oo loo dhiibo sanaaduuqdii oo la yidhaahdo ku gura, in rag komiishanka ahaa oo ay ahayd inay ilaaliyaan garba-duub loo xidho, in sanaaduuqdii Saylac taalay meel lagu xidho”

Axmed Yuusuf Cismaan, waxa kale oo uu dhaliilay go’aanka dib loogu tirinayo codadkii Hargeysa laga dhiibtay “Waxa la tiriyey 431 sanaaduuq oo degmooyinka Hargeysa ah, tiradii la tiriyey ee la shaaciyey ayaa haddana la yidhi waa laga noqonayaa, tusbaxaana waxa furay komiishanka doorashooyinka, ma dowbaa , ma xaqbaa, ma garbaa, ma wax la qaadan karayaa”ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku daray “Waxa dhacay waxa uu bar madow ku yahay hogaanka dalka haddii uu waxba ka qaban waayo waxa dhacay, ceebtan maanta komiishankaa leh oo dawladdu lama laha, haddiise uu waxba ka qabban waayo dawladdu way la yeelanaysaa”

Guddoomiyihii hore ee komiishanka xuquuqal Iisaanka Somaliland uu ka hadlay 14 jir ay ku dhacday rasaastii ciidamadda boolisku u addeegsadeen dadkii ka cabanayey natiijadda doorashadda ee Hargeysa “Waar Gabood-falbaa dhacay, inan yar oo 14 jir ah ayaa xabbadi ku dhacday, anigu booliska eeda saari maayo, laakiin ninka amarkaa siiyay ee meesha u diray-baa dambigaa qaadanaya, bulshada Somaliland-na waxaan ugu baaqayaa askarigu waa wallaalkeen ee dhagaxa ka daaya, Arintani arin Xaqsoor ama reer Fadhida maaha, arin Kulmiye, Rays iyo Waddani midna fadhida maaha ee waa arin qaran”ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku daray isaga oo ku baaqaya dibad-baxa shacabku sameeyaan Arbacada “Maalinta Arbacadda ah difaacayaasha Xuquuqal iisaanku waxay idinku baaqayaan in la isku soo baxo oo banaan-bax weyn la sameeyo oo lagaga cabanayo waxa ay komiishanku wadaan ee dadka isku dilaya, isku soo baxa Arbacada dhacayaana waa Salmi aan cidna lagu dhibaynin”

Somaliland: RRU agents Apprehend an American Somali female Suspected of Being a Top Al Shabaab Operative

Somaliland security forces have arrested an alleged top female Al Shabaab operative a fortnight ago during a raid in a house in Borama town.

Reports indicated that a five people were caught in a night time raid among them an American /Somali female that is thought to be a high ranking Al Shabaab operative and her three companions, 2 females and 1 male.

It is still uncertain the reasons which prompted the raid on the house but unconfirmed reports suggest that the RRU operatives conducted the raid after an international arrest warrant was issued for the alleged top female operative by unknown foreign power.

A reporter with a Somali language newspaper who visited some relatives of one of the detained women spoke to a Miss Mariam Hashi Ugaas who told him that the 9:00pm night raid was conducted by RRU operatives saw the apprehension Ayan Hirsi Diriye, Siraad Omar Hashi, Layla Hirsi and their house maid who goes by the name of Nimco.

The RRU operatives ransacked the house although it is not clear what they were searching for during raid said Miss Marian.

Miss Marian added that unnamed security officials had confirmed to them that the arrested relatives are currently been held in Hargeisa intelligence headquarters.

Source :Waheen news

Dallada xuquuqul-insaanka S/land oo iftiimisay musumaasuq xadhkaha goostay oo qoyska madaxtooyadu

Dec 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM

S.Xaquuq wuxuu daaha ka feyday inay ogaadeen in Baashe Cawil X.Cumar (Moorgan) oo M.siilanyo Sodog u yahay si weyn ugu lug leeyahay musuqmaasuq baahsan oo ka jira

Dallada xuquuqul-insaanka S/land oo iftiimisay musumaasuq xadhkaha goostay oo qoyska madaxtooyadu ku lug leeyahay

Xoghayaha Dallada Ururada Xuquuqul-Insaanka Saleebaan Ismaaciil (Saleebaan Xaquuq)ayaa daboolka ka qaadey in musumaasuq baahsani oo xadhkaha goostay ka jiro Somaliland,Qoyska Madaxtooyaduna si weyn ugu milmay oo qeyb ka noqday musuq-maasuqaas.

Saleebaan Xaquuq wuxuu ku nuuxnuuxsadey in intii Xukumada Siilanyo talada dalka haysay ay si xawliya u kordhayaan xad-gudubyada iyo gabood fallada is-dabajooga ah ee lagula kaco Muwaadiniinta iyo dadka taagta daran oo Xabsiyada layskaga guro iyagan Maxakamadaha la marin.

Saleebaan Xaquuq wuxuu daaha ka feyday in Dallada Xuquuqul –insaanku ogaatey in Baashe Cawil Xaaji Cumar (Moorgan) oo madaxweyne siilanyo Sodog u yahay si weyn ugu lug leeyahay musuqmaasuq baahsan iyo lunsasho hanti qaran oo ka jira TV-ga Qaranka (Tv ku hadla Afka Qoyska Madaxtooyada ),musuqaas oo uu sheegay Saleebaan Xuquuq inay soo bandhigtay Hayada Transparent International.

Dhinaca kale Saleebaan Xaquuq wuxuu saluugay oo farta ku go’day Komishinka Doorashooyinka Somaliland iyo Natiijada doorashada Degaanka oo uu sheegay in lagu hungoobay oo mid lagu khasaarey u e’eg tahay maadababa buu yidhi tacab badan la geliyey,waqi dheerna la ga dhursugaayey balse natiijadeedii laysku haysto oo muran weyn xukumadu gelisay.

Sidoo kale Gudoomiyaha Dallada xuquuqul-Insaanka Somaliland Axmed Yuusuf Xuseen ayaa ugu baaqey Bulshoweynta reer Somaliland iyo difaacayaasha Xuquuqul Insaanka inay maalinta Arbacada isagu soo baxaan Banaanbax balaadhan oo lagu diidan yahay Cadaaladarada iyo Tacadiyada ay Komishinka Doorashooyinka Somaliland ku kaceen.Gudoomiyuhu wuxuu ku ceceliyey in natiijada doorashada degaanku sababtay dhimasho iyo dhaawac Caruur da’doodu ka yaryar tahay 14 sano masuuliyadeedana Komishanku leeyihiin.

Hargeisa

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Difaacayaasha Madaxa Banaan ee Xuquuqa Aadamiga Somaliland oo Carrooga Ku Afuufay Tacadiyadda Musuqmaasuq Iyo Bani-aadaminimo Ee Xukuumadda, Dibad-baxna Ku Baaqay

Suleiman Ismail Bulaleh (Saleban Xuquuq)

December 11th, 2012 |

“Waxaynu Ka War-qabnaa In Sanadkii Boqolaal Kun Oo Doolar Oo Tv-ga Qaranka Ka Soo Baxa uu Wiilka Madaxwaynuhu Sodogga U Yahay….”Saleebaan Xuquuq

WAR CRIME CASES AGAINST TOP THREE SIYAAD BARE DICTATOR GOVERNMENT IN UNITED STATES

BACKGROUND ON SOMALIA

From 1969 to 1990, president and military dictator Siad Barre oversaw a campaign of widespread atrocities that decimated Somali civil society. To quash separatist movements in the 1980s, the Somali Armed Forces targeted civilians in the northwest, culminating in the bloody 1988 siege of the regional capital Hargeisa, which claimed 5,000 civilian lives. [1] When Barre’s regime finally collapsed in 1991, Somalia was plunged into a chaotic internal conflict from which it has never recovered. Today, Somalia is universally cited as a 'failed state.'

CJA’s cases against three former members of Siad Barre’s regime—former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Mohamed Ali Samantar, notorious war criminal Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali (aka Tukeh), and former Chief of Investigations of the infamous National Security Service Abdi Aden Magan—represent the first international effort to gain justice for the victims of the Barre regime and to end impunity for those responsible for this dark chapter of Somalia’s history.

Context: Understanding Clan Violence

In 1991, Somalia was described by the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance as "the worst humanitarian disaster in the world."[2] In 2009, Foreign Policy Magazine called it “the most dangerous place in the world.”[3] In the intervening 18 years, the violence in Somalia was portrayed in the Western media as a regression to a primordial, even timeless conflict based on eternal tribal hatreds. In 1992, the New York Times wrote: “Instead of fighting with traditional spears and shields, the clans have more recently conducted their feuds with mortars and machine guns.” One UN official even opined: "We could end up with Africa the way it was before the colonialists came, divided up into tribal enclaves." [4] But the history of political violence in Somalia is not given to such oversimplification.

The root causes of the Somali crisis are more modern in origin. They can be traced to at least three 20th century phenomena: colonialism, Cold War international relations, and the Barre dictatorship. The interaction of these modern forces in the post-colonial state ushered in the clan conflict of the 1980s and the chaos of the 1990s-2000s. Thus, to understand the present crisis we should look to what preceded it.

The Legacy of Colonialism

Ethnic Somalis have lived for centuries throughout the Horn of Africa, practicing nomadic pastoralism in the north and agricultural pastoralism in the south. However, Somalia’s political borders were imposed by European colonial powers who partitioned ethnic Somali enclaves into parts of modern day Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. [5] Parts of the north were administered as British Somaliland, while much of the South became Italian Somalia. When these two former colonies merged to form the independent United Republic of Somalia in 1960, the contrasting colonial, political and economic traditions became a source of divisive tension in the fledgling republic.[6]

The Barre Dictatorship Begins: 1969-1975

Somalia’s 9-year experiment in post-colonial democracy ended in October 1969, when Major General Siad Barre seized power in a bloodless coup. Barre formed the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) and declared an end to "tribalism, nepotism, corruption, and misrule." The SRC aligned itself with the Soviet Union and denounced U.S. African policy as imperialist. [7]

At the same time, Barre set out to radically transform Somali society through “scientific socialism”: an ideology that fused Marxism with Quranic interpretation. Publicly, Barre claimed to stamp out the clan system. Yet in practice, the regime ultimately did the opposite. Barre elevated members of his family’s clans to the regime’s inner circle, a practice that earned his government the code-name M.O.D.—an acronym of the Mareehaan, Ogaden and Dulbahante clans. [7] In the 1970s, Barre formed a new intelligence agency comprised of members of his clan called the National Security Service (NSS). Ostensibly responsible for intelligence and internal security, including monitoring security "offenses," the NSS became known as the "Black SS": a secret police force that used torture and arbitrary detention to suppress dissidents and curtail civil liberties.

Turning Point: The Ogaden War with Ethiopia: 1977-1978

Conquering the ethnic Somali regions of Ethiopia had long been one of Barre’s policies. The moment seemed ripe with the fall of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Sellasie in 1974. Three years later, the Somali National Army invaded and attempted to annex the Somali enclave in the Ogaden region. This proved to be a fatal miscalculation. The Soviet Union and Cuba backed the new Marxist government of Ethiopia and withdrew support from Barre. Soviet aid—once the life-blood of the regime—was cut off.

A column of refugees soon flowed from the Ogaden war and from drought stricken regions in the Horn. The regime systematically resettled Ogaden refugees in camps and settlements in the northwest region and supplied them with weapons to help suppress the Isaaq and seize their economic assets.

Uprising in the Northwest: 1978-1982

In 1978, military officers from the Majeerteen clan launched a coup attempt. The Red Berets, military special forces, responded by destroying water reservoirs in Majeerteen areas. As a result, an estimated 2,000 Majeerteen died of thirst. Paramilitaries also waged a campaign of sexual violence against Majeerteen women. [4]

The rebellion spread. In 1979, a group of Isaaq expatriates formed the Somali National Movement (SNM), with the goal of overthrowing Barre. By 1982, the SNM were ready to launch an invasion of northern Somalia from their base in Ethiopia. [6]

Although the withdrawal of Soviet aid dealt a blow to Barre’s military strength, a new foreign partner soon stepped into the breach. With the 1979 Iranian revolution, the U.S. lost a key ally in the Middle East. The proximity of the Horn of Africa to Gulf oil shipping routes gave Somalia a new strategic importance. In order to maintain military bases there, the U.S. government gave Barre’s regime $163.5 million in military technology, and four times as much in economic aid from 1980-1988. With U.S. support, Barre’s army swelled to number some 120,000 troops. [6] [9]This formidable war-machine would be turned against its own civilians.

Widespread Atrocities: 1978-1991

Throughout the early 1980s, the Barre regime used increasingly repressive tactics to suppress dissidents from all clans, with particular brutality in the northwest. The Isaaq-majority SNM prosecuted a low-intensity guerilla war against the government throughout this period. Though the SNM also committed human rights violations, the overwhelming number of atrocities were committed by Somali government soldiers.[1]

By 1983, as many as 1.3 million refugees had arrived in Somalia. [8] The military defeat against Ethiopia and the refugee crisis strained the Somali economy, particularly in the northern areas dominated by the Isaaq clan, where Barre favored Ogaden refugees over the Isaaq in regional government posts.

By 1987, a segment of the Ogaden clan broke from the government to launch its own opposition group (the Somali Patriotic Movement, or SPM), and leaders of the Hawiye clan formed the Somali National Alliance (SNA). The regime had lost control of most of the country.

After the Ethiopia-Somalia peace agreement in May 1988, the SNM, fearing the collapse of its long insurgency, attacked the major northern towns of Hargeisa and Burao. In what Human Rights Watch characterized as “savage counterinsurgency tactics”, the regime responded with the aerial bombing and strafing of northern towns and villages, including the pursuit and slaughter of civilians fleeing on foot. The assault focused on Hargeisa—the second-largest city in Somalia—where bombing sorties flown by Somali pilots and by South African and ex-Rhodesian mercenaries destroyed an estimated 70% of the city. The attack struck residential neighborhoods the hardest and leveled most of the city; over 5,000 civilians were killed. Nearly half a million Somalis fled to Ethiopia, where they remained for years in refugee camps. At least another half million internally displaced persons streamed to other regions within Somalia. [1] [6] [10]

The Collapse of the Somali State: 1991-2012

In 1989, a group of Somali exiles from the Hawiye clan formed the United Somali Congress (USC) in Rome. Fatefully, Barre responded by ordering the Red Berets to carry out a renewed wave of violence against the Hawiye and Isaaq populations. USC militias eventually struck back, and, on January 27, 1991, drove Barre out of Mogadishu. At the same time, the SNM seized power in the northwest and declared independence as the Republic of Somaliland. Barre fled the country and, four years later, died a natural death in exile. [7]

Meanwhile, Mogadishu was plunged into chaos as rival militia leaders battled for control of the city. The conflagration spread across Somalia, sparking a dire food crisis and eventually an ill-fated international humanitarian intervention. More than twenty years later, Mogadishu remains a lawless zone with no effective government. In 2006, an Islamist insurgency threatened to topple the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). In response, Ethiopia staged a large-scale military intervention. Although many have accused the Islamist insurgency, the TFG, and Ethiopia’s counterinsurgency of carrying out widespread human rights abuses against civilians, evidence of the full scale and scope of these violations has been slow to emerge.

By 2009, some 3.2 million Somalis are dependent on humanitarian assistance for their survival.[11] At the same time, piracy along Somalia’s coasts had become a source of international tension, capturing the media's attention and even obscuring the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

By 2011, the TFG was still confined to only a part of Mogadishu. Weak and worn out by political squabbles, it remained dependent on troops of the African Union (AU) mission (AMISOM) for its very existence. Regions to the north still refused to recognize its legitimacy, and much of southern and central Somalia was controlled by the Islamist insurgency known as Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group bent on imposing its extreme version of Islam on the entire country, if not the entire region. [13] [14] [15] By 2010, about 1.5 million people had been internally displaced within Somalia, and more than half a million Somali refugees had sought shelter in neighboring countries. [15] [16] Adding to the crisis, Somalia was struck by famine in 2011 and early 2012. At its height, the famine raised the number of people entirely dependent on humanitarian assistance in Somalia to 4 million. [17]

One oasis in Somalia’s devastated social landscape is the self-proclaimed republic of Somaliland. Built on the ashes of Hargeisa and the devastated northwest region, Somaliland—while still unrecognized by the international community—has undertaken a transitional justice effort to re-establish the rule of law and effective governance. While the Somaliland experiment in democracy remains fragile, it offers a glimmer of hope in a region that has not seen peace in three decades.[12]

Hargeisa Under Siege

»Learn more about the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland and efforts at transitional justice there.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

French leftist leader meets 'prisoner' Assange in London

Published: 07 December, 2012, 02:36

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (R) shakes hands with French politician Jean Luc Melenchon inside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, on December 6, 2012.(AFP Photo / Leon Neal)

Former French presidential candidate Jean Melenchon has met with Julian Assange at London's Ecuadorian Embassy to show his solidarity with, he says, the “prisoner” of a government that lets dictators walk free but is not brave enough to free Assange.

The politician also called on Sweden to not extradite Assange to the United States, while praising the Ecuadorian government or having a “very brave attitude… unlike many other countries” who offered to help the whistleblower, quotes the French Liberation.

Following a meeting between the two, Melanchon told reporters, “We say to the British Government: you freed the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, you let him go in 2000, you may well let Julian Assange [go],” the Paris Depeches reports.

Assange, who was not present following the meeting, was described by the French politician, as an “intellectually combative” individual who feels sympathy for the incarcerated Bradley Manning, the former US serviceman accused of delivering classified data to Assange.

"The situation is that Mr. Assange is a prisoner," the Left Front leader added.

As far as Melanchon's reasons for visiting the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he, alongside Ambassador Ana Alban, said, “I am a friend of the Citizens' Revolution in Ecuador, and so I feel a duty to come in contact with my friends, express gratitude and solidarity."

It was the first face-to-face meeting between Melanchon and Assange. The two had previously spoken on the phone in August.

In turn, the Ecuadorian ambassador told the reporters that Assange is slowly assimilating. "You can imagine how difficult it can be to have fresh air and to have sun and space. In the beginning it was quite difficult, but now it's fine" Alban said in a press briefing.

Last week, it was reported that Assange had developed a chronic lung condition “which could get worse at any moment." The whistleblower requires constant medical attention at his refuge in the embassy, Ambassador Alban told reporters in Quito last week.

In November, Assange's lawyer warned that the forty-one-year-old Australian's health could deteriorate if he remains confined much longer.

Assange has been inside the Ecuadorian Embassy since June 19th, when Ecuador granted him political asylum.

If he leaves the building, the whistleblower faces immediate arrest and extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on charges of sex crimes.

Many see the Swedish extradition as a ruse that would allow his extradition to the United States, where he could face execution for his activities with WikiLeaks.

Ecuador has petitioned the British government for permission to allow Assange from the London embassy to Ecuador. They also asked for a guarantee of his safety if he is to be admitted to a UK hospital.

London refused to negotiate, stating that it is legally obligated to hand him over to Sweden if he leaves the premisses of the Ecuadorian Embassy.

Photo from twitter.com user @jpo11ard

Bradley Manning: A Window into the American Soul

by Paul Craig Roberts

December 8, 2012

Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States. Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution—not to the government or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology—to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.

Today the emphasis needs to be on the Constitution’s domestic enemies in “our own” government. America’s foreign enemies are miniscule. But the domestic enemies are legion. America’s enemies consist, with whistleblower exceptions, of the entire US government, both executive branch, legislative branch (with possibly a dozen exceptions), and judicial branch (with few exceptions).

The three branches of our government have united to destroy US civil liberties in the name of a hoax, “the war on terror.” Even if the US were overrun with terrorists, how could they harm us more than our government has harmed us by destroying the US Constitution?

If you don’t believe that the US Constitution has been destroyed by Republicans and Democrats alike, read my book coauthored with Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, and the five articles whose URLs are provided below.

Bradley Manning, a member of the US military, complied with his oath of office, with the US Military Code, with the Nuremberg standards set by the US government, with the strictures expressed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the George W, Bush administration, and with his own conscience. Manning, allegedly (we will never know), released to Wikileaks the video of the US military murdering two journalists and a dozen innocent people walking down a street.

After the murder of these people by the US military playing video games with live people, a father with two young children stopped his van to help the survivors crawling in the street. The US military, due to either blood-lust, incompetence, or total evil, killed the father and sent high caliber bullets into the bodies of the two small children.

The murderers then blame the father for bringing children into the combat zone created by the incompetence or evil of the US troops, who obviously get their jollies from murdering people. TV cameras are claimed to be weapons and justifications for murdering 15 people.

Subsequently, a few people, whom the video shows to be unarmed, walk into a building.

The US troops claim the unarmed people have weapons and RPGs and send three hellfire missiles into the building. The US troops then report that all the “targets” are dead.

Any real patriotic American who saw this video would be compelled to release it. If Manning released it to Wikileaks, then Manning is the most morally responsible American alive. What has Manning’s moral conscience cost him?

It has cost Manning 900 days held incommunicado illegally by the US government. President John F. Kennedy’s presidency lasted 1,000 days. Manning was held and tortured for almost the entire length of Camelot.

And the US government has got away with it.

Americans don’t care. It is not them. They are too stupid to understand that once law is gone, they can be next.

In their desire to punish Manning, US military and civilian authorities failed to realize that the lesson for soldiers is that crimes against humanity will not be punished, but those who reveal the crimes will be punished.

On November 29 Bradley Manning testified in federal court about his illegal confinement and torture by the US government. Manning’s testimony was not covered by the US media. The New York Times, in Chris Floyd’s words, “contented itself with a brief bit of wire copy from AP, tucked away on page 3.”

In contrast, the British Guardian covered Manning’s testimony in detail in two stories 68 paragraphs long. The British people are informed of the US government’s crimes against humanity in violation of international law and US law, but not the American people.

A formal United Nations investigation into the illegal, brutal and inhuman treatment of Bradley Manning denounced his treatment as “cruel and inhuman.” The US State Department spokesman, Col. P.J. Crowley, resigned after publicly protesting Manning’s illegal and inhuman treatment by the US government.

The presstitute media was silent.

Glenn Greenwald, the constitutional attorney, concludes that “the US establishment journalists have enabled the government every step of the way.” The presstitutes hold “themselves out as adversarial watchdogs, but nothing provokes their animosity more than someone who effectively challenges government actions.”

Greenwald praises Bradley Manning who “has bestowed the world with multiple vital benefits. But as his court martial finally reaches its conclusion, one likely to result in the imposition of a long prison term, it appears his greatest gift is this window into America’s political soul.”

The window into America’s political soul reveals total evil. The US government constitutes Satan’s Chosen People. Nothing else can be said for those who rule and oppress us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33193.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33192.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33200.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33203.htm

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/29/exclusive_julian_assange_on_wikileaks_bradley

This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org and has been used here with permission.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/12/08/bradley-manning-a-window-into-the-american-soul/

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Rabshadihii Ugu Xumaa Taariikhda Dimuqraadiyadda Oo Istaagay Iyo Booliska Oo Ka Hadlay Khasaarihii Ka Dhashay

“Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle” Cabdilaahi Fadal Iimaan.

Taliyaha Ciidanka Booliska Somaliland General Fadal

Hargeysa (Waaheen) – Rabshado habeen hore fiidkii ka bilaabmay degmadda Axmed Dhagax ee Magaaladda Hargeysa isla-markaana ku xidhiidhsanaa natiijadda ka soo baxday codadkii laga dhiibtay doorashaddii degmooyinka Caasimadda oo sii socday ilaa galinkii hore ee shalay ayaa is-taagay ka dib markii ciidamadda booliska ee rabashadahaasi ka hortagayey ay toogasho ku dileen hal qof isla-markaana ay laba kale dhaawaceen.

Rabashadahan oo ay samaynayeen dhalinyaro taageersan urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo aan ku qancin natiijadda codadkii ay ka heleen Hargeysa oo ay sheegeen in la musuqmaasuqay, ayaa waxa inta la ogyahay ku geeriyooday laba qof oo dhalinyaro ah, waxaana dhaawacyo ka soo gaadheen ilaa 7 ruux.

Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo kaashanaya Madax-dhaqameedka gobolka Hawd iyo culimadda dalka, ayaa si weyn uga hawl-galay sidii dhalinyaraddu u joojin lahaayeen rabashaddaha oo ahaa kuwo dhibaaato amaan daro u horseedi gaadhay Magaaladda Hargeysa, waxayna subaxdii shalay dhalinyarada

Mudaharaadka dhigayey isugu yeedhen garoonka kubadda Cagta ee Hargeysa Istaadiyam, halkaasi oo ay kala hadleen isla-markaana u soo jeediyeen inay joojiyaan rabshadaha si xaqdarada ay tirsanayaan xalkeeda loo doono, inkasta oo markii kulankaasi waanada ahaa markii u dhamaaday ay dib u bilaabeen rabashadihii, taasi oo keentay in boolisku toogto saddex qof oo mid ka mid ahi geeriyoodo.

Rabashadahan oo noqonaya kuwii ugu xumaa ee ka dhaca dalka, intii Somaliland ku dhaqmaysay nidaamka dimuqraadiga ah, ayaa duhurkii istaagay, iyadda oo ilaa hadda cisbitaaladda Magaaladda Hargeysa lagu daweynayo dadkii dhaawacyadu ka soo gaadheen rasaasta booliska.

Taliyaha booliska Somaliland Cabdilaahi Fadal Iimaan oo shalay ka hadlay rabashadahan, ayaa sheegay inuu ka xun yahay dhibaatadda dhacday iyo dadka ku waxyeeloobay.

Taliye Fadal, waxa uu Tacsi u diray dadka dhintay, isagoo sidoo kalena caafimaad u rajeeyay kuwo dhaawacmay “Shalay (doraad) waxa lagu dhawaaqay natiijaddii doorashadda ee Hargeysa, taas oo aan qancin ururka Xaqsoor, markaa dad dhalinyaro ah oo arintaasi ka gadoodsan ayaa sameeyay rabash waxayna iska hor yimaadeen ciidamadda booliska, waxaana ku dhaawacmay lix qof, waxaana ku dhintay hal qof”

Taliye Fadal waxa uu sheegay inay aad uga xun yihiin dhibaatadda ku dhacday dadka rabashadaha khasaaruhu ka soo gaadhay “Aad iyo aad uga xunahay, kuwa dhintayna waanu tacsiyadeynaynaa, kuwa dhaawacnmayna waxaanu ILAAHAY uga baryeynaa caafimaad”ayuu yidh waxaanu intaa ku daray isaga oo ka jawaabaya waxa mar walba ciidamadda boolisku dadka rasaasta nool ugu isticmaalaan “Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle”

Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor, Salaadiinta, culimadda iyo waxgaradka gobolka Hawd ayaa ku mashquulsan sidii aanay rabshadahaasi aanay mar labaad u dhaceen si looga badbaado khasaare kale oo yimaada, inkasta oo aan la ogeyn in Masuuliyiinta Xaqsoor laga qanciyey tabashada ay qabbaan ee dhibaatadani ka dhacday, inkasta oo xukuumaddu sheegtay inay arinkan ku dhamanaynayaan si nabadgalyo ah.

Dhanka kale, xukuumadda ayaa shalay galinkii dambe ciidamo faro badan oo Milatari u badan dhigtay inta badan jidadka xaafadaha degmadda Axmed Dhagax ka kooban tahay, iyadda oo gaadiidka galaya ama ka soo baxaya xaafadahaasi ay ciidamaddu aad u baadhayeen si ay u hubiyaan in dadku mar kale rabashadu isku diyaarinayaan rabashado kale oo dheeraad ah.

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