Armed gangs filling Mogadishu security vacuum
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at
3:04 am
As Mogadishu emerges from 20 years of war, a security vacuum has appeared in the Somali capital. Despite al-Shabab fighters withdrawing in August, government forces are struggling to make the city safe. Local communities are organising their own armed gangs to protect themselves, threatening to return the city to the worst days of its warlords. Al Jazeera’s Peter Greste reports from Mogadishu.
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@paranorma1palace, curious comment, relating religion to economics. islam forbids usury and usury is strangling the west. maybe the? vatican can sell quantitative easing of purgatory indulgences…
@mispistoleros
i’l explain it then, al shabab declined help from the west during famine, because they were christian, i myself am an? atheist, but you see what im getting at, these “islamic warlords” would rather their people starve than get a handout from the west, just an observation
@mispistoleros
and funnily enough you may say usury is strangling the west, but im not the one having to carry an ak47 around with me, needing a bath and starving am i ? just observations, but a good way of not confronting these issues is to change the subject and talk about the problems of the one making the argument, as you just did..sigh?
@mispistoleros
also i think youl agree relating religion to economics isnt that strange, considering what you just said “islam forbids usury” theres religion effecting economics right there, but whats the difference between lending someone money, and selling thema product at a mark up ? like oil for example lol, islam has nothing against prophet[profit]? if youl pardon the pun
@paranorma1palace, if you think it thru, you’ll see that your usury-trade model simply? doesn’t make sense. who would borrow $ if the oil was free?
i said “curious” because many don’t see the fundamental influence religion has on economics. the quebecois came to grips with this in the silent revolution, when they shut down the biggest economic scam in history, the catholic church.
here’s a pun on onerous usury and the fed, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the profits…”
@mispistoleros
thats the same principle as usury 
i know thats never gonna happen either and i wouldnt expect it to, as a capitalist i have no issue with profit, as long as monopolys dont? become entrenched and screw everyone , which seems to be the way things are going 
im not suggesting the oil shoudl be free, but sold at cost
@paranorma1palace, no problem with profits as long as natural resource and utilities profits are not privatized, i.e., those providing services are paid a fair price. resources, especially water, are common heritage.
lending institutions offering competitive services is legitimate; usury becomes usury when whole societies and countries are brought to? their knees in an unending cycle of debt. evidently, north dakota’s state bank has kept the state out of debt…and employed.
ethnic communities across the globe have traditionally formed “off-the-books” lending mechanisms, giving loans at little or no interest to members? who establish businesses and buy up property, ultimately creating “little italy” and “china town”.
@blackstars56 Absolutely right.?
the reason i say this is because? after independence every country has been ruled by a dictator for a couple decades to keep stability and security. siad barre failed to keep somalia together, thats why we’ve been plunged into this chaos.
@blackstars56 President Siad barre was a good strong leader until he turned to clanism? and after that he was betrayed
How come the white man calls Somalis “clans” but other Africans like Sudanese tribes? How come they do not call any Europeans tribes? I have heard them call so-called arabs tribes as? well.
@ReturnoftheBrotha I think it is just a question of which term different nationalities use themselves. Tribe and clan? basically refer to the same thing.
Brave reporter….?
Remove the reporter and all the crew. Then drop a nuclear? bomb.
“It’s? nice to be King.” – D. Kaye -
Let me guess armed militias in Somalia…
SO WHAT’S NEW
Well the only good thing here? is that at least the Somali militias are not cross dressing and eating people just like Liberia.
@LondonNil
i dropped a nuclear bomb in ur mom last night.. The reporter and the crew? were all there to film it =)
@NORDSTRAND83: No. When someone? is called a “caln” you instantly think violence as in Ku Klux KLAN. When you hear tribe, you think peaceful people. Words used by the white man are chosen for brainwashing purposes. Somalia needs to get together, then take over Yeman. At least that is my way of thinking.
@ReturnoftheBrotha If what you say is true? Why do people usually use the term “clan” to describe groups in Europe? What about Scottish? clans?
Shame on you AlJazeeraEnglish for always giving a bad image against the hard work that we somalis are putting in to re-build? our country.
We are doing our best in the most difficult situation and the last thing we need is hate and anti-propaganda from AlJazeeraEnglish
@NORDSTRAND83: Well I have never heard that term to describe any Europeans. I am not from there I am in the US. If what you write is correct, I would have to see what context? it is put in.
@yusuf6734 How old are you?…..just asking…….what have you don for? your country?
NUKE? AFRICA
@shipshipdhe I assume? , that he is an Internet warrior that wont set foot in Mogadishu for the fear of abduction , while thousands of aid workers risk their lives to solve a mess that they didn’t create .