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THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS AN EXACT QUOTE:
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http://travel.state.gov/somalia_warning.html

Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

This information is current as of today, Tue Jun 08 2004 00:19:20 GMT-0700.

Somalia

June 7, 2004

This Travel Warning is being issued to remind Americans of continued concerns about the security situation in Somalia and to clarify registration procedures. This supersedes the Travel Warning of June 2, 2004.

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all travel to Somalia, including the self proclaimed “independent Republic of Somaliland”. Inter-clan and inter-factional fighting can flare up with little warning, and kidnapping, murder, and other threats to U.S. citizens and other foreigners can occur unpredictably in many regions. There is no U.S. Embassy or other U.S. diplomatic presence in Somalia.

There have been attacks against foreigners in the self-declared "Republic of Somaliland" in northern Somalia. The Sanaag and Sool Regions in eastern Somaliland, bordering on Puntland (northeastern Somalia), are subject to insecurity due to potential inter-clan fighting. There were several fatal attacks against international relief workers, including Westerners, throughout Somalia and Somaliland in late 2003 and early 2004. In addition, serious fighting has occurred in the Mogadishu area, the Puntland region in northern Somalia, and the districts of Gedo and Bay (especially the vicinity of Baidoa) in the south. Territorial control in the Mogadishu area is divided among numerous groups; lines of control are unclear and frequently shift, making movement within this area extremely hazardous.

U.S. citizens are urged to use caution when sailing near the coast of Somalia. Merchant vessels, fishing boats and recreational craft alike risk seizure and their crews being held for ransom, especially in the waters near the Horn of Africa and the Kenyan border.

The U.S. Government cannot provide services to U.S. citizens in Somalia. U.S. citizens who plan to travel to Somalia despite this Travel Warning are urged to register and obtain updated information on travel and security from the U.S. Embassies in neighboring countries. Travelers to the self-declared “Republic of Somaliland” should register with the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti, and travelers to Puntland or southern Somalia should register with the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.

The U.S. Embassy in Djibouti is located at Plateau du Serpent, Boulevard Marechal Joffre, Djibouti City; telephone (253) 35-39-95. The after-hours telephone number is (253) 35-13-43. The mailing address is Ambassade Americaine, B.P. 185, Djibouti, Republique de Djibouti. The workweek in Djibouti is Sunday through Thursday. The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi is located on United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya; telephone (254) (20) 363-6000; after-hours emergencies (254) (20) 363-6170. The mailing address is P.O. Box 606 Village Market,
00621 Nairobi, Kenya, or Unit 64100, APO AE 09831, USA.

U.S. citizens should also consult the Department of State's Consular Information Sheet for Somalia, the Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, and the East Africa Public Announcement, which are located on the Department’s Internet website at http://travel.state.gov. American citizens may obtain up-to-date information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States or 317-472-2328 from overseas.

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Here are two posts made in the last few hours which have caught my attention. I'm on the way to the office - I'm posting an Ajeeb translation simply so you guys don't have to wait until after lunch. I'd appreciate any comments on these.

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The run of the horse ..And suddenly the hour

The praise of Allah is the right of its praise the creator of the universe
with the unity of its creature and the prayer for the prophet Al-Mustafa
Mohammad is a mercy of all his manners ..

Peace be upon you

( ( the run of an Imrikh .. A run ( a single ) he wants ( Yngbh * ) and
after what piles !!))
These words that Saddam said among his daily talks to Iraq army before the
invasion by few days ....

And she has occurred to me ( a comparison ) that tried in it that tie what
between the taboos prohibition concept by their kinds in the Islam ( and
that does by the human who does not become forbidden what prohibited Allah
to ( the death of the suddenly is ! ) or what names by ( the heart failure )
..And what between the human being sons sins generally and that she also
leads to the establishment of the Hour ! According to ( by what the people
hands gained ! ) where the hour comes also ( by surprise ! ) ..

And also ( the colonization ) or the slavery to not Allah ( with the
compulsion ) sometimes ( and with the exhortation and with the intimidation
sometimes another ) and the recession of that colonization ( and specially
the cumulative and imitating in America ) where all this colonization
recedes ( by surprise ) as happened to France in Algeria .. ! Where the
French army smuggled in year 1962 issuing result of the army a matter ( a
sudden is ! ) Balnshab ( the instant ) ....

Allah glory be to ... .. A comparison between ( the death of the suddenly )
or what is named the heart failure or the apoplexy ... This comparison has
come me throughout ( the death is Alfgaa ) .. He showed it, and Mabein is
warning the Lord of the Worlds of us glory be to, when we warned of the
establishment of the Hour that does not come except ( by surprise ) ..!
Then what is the comparison face ...
The comparison ( and Allah know ) she agrees with the conditions what
between ( Alfgatin ) ..How ..!
Then what that Allah glory be to it has warned us and warns us of the
commission of disobedience and sins ( what therefore from a big and
dangerous harm on the disobedient human himself ( by what offered their
hands ) and that Rbnatbark is repeated and rose many in the mixing .. And
that occurs for me from its results ( the death of the disobedient human
with the death of the suddenly ( in its majority ) the one that becomes easy
from the taboos .. As drinking the evil by its kinds .. And the adultery (
and the lying and the hypocrisy and the bad cunning is ! Where she causes
these characteristics to who the worry and the blame are characterized by
them ( the blamer soul is !) and that leads to reversals dangerous for its
psychology that lead to the apoplexy mostly after it appears before it ( the
appearance of the surprise portents is ! ) like the rise of the pressing and
the fear of the cry ( they think each cry on them !) .. ) and the descent of
the pressure is !) ...

Also, then appears that disobedience and the human being sins meeting ( in
their majority ) which affects the environment and its natural movement that
sharpened it for us Glory be to Him for us, and this influence on the
environment it becomes easy throughout their exploitation to this
environment by a form ( a collective disobedience ) to Allah glory be to, a
result an exorbitant and voracious extraction to the land wealths and its
oil store and the sulfuric and metallic one and the uranium, and also to
what carries out it from an exhaustion of the land and its forests and the
displacement of many of its hills the natural and the sweeping operations to
many of the mountains and digging of the spending in them .. And the
pollution of the earth atmosphere by the gases kinds sublime over the
chemical reactions is by their dangerous kinds and that from their results
created the land cover Alaozoni and that affects by its role on all of the
creatures by the diseases kinds and the living damage to these creatures and
a change of the land nature Algiobotghrafia Walgiologfiziaeea
Walgiologkimiaey and all of the changes of the geological and formative
nature to earth .. And such the radiations resulting from Alyoraoniom
interactions and that from Ntashgh while if a region was exposed what for a
direct radiation from these interactions, became the matter of those wide
areas ( according to the Tars of this area to the extent of the power of
this radiation ) very the difficulty for the removal of the radiation and
its killing influences by what does not be less about ( 40 billion years are
!! ) so that he vanishes naturally ..
And other things of the explosions continuous to the land peel of the wars
lessons by kinds and the severest destructive powers as we notice, and that
from its results the abundance of the earthquakes and their spread as became
testifying that now . and so on from a destruction to the natural way of
Allah in the creation of the land and its benefits ..
Then what that the death of the suddenly that comes to the human precedes
him ( marks and small and eldest portents are ! ) a sick accelerates without
he lends for it the afflicted human a mind ! Which leads is by it the matter
to ( the surprise ) the fatal and the emergence of its resurrection ! , then
also that to the hour that comes us ( by surprise ) for it also its symptoms
and their marks ( the smallest and the eldest is ! ) ( and that name it the
Signs of the Hour or the Dooms Day portents ) and she if the human did not
lend it a mind for the rectification of its replacement, that means that it
is Tatina ( suddenly ! ) ...

And here also it appears that the matter concerns ( the imperialist
societies that get about a stage ( the humanity and the good sense ) then
pests are reflected ( the blamer herself is ! ) on its societies then the
abandonment and the debauchery injure it by its kinds ! .. ( she ( the
blamer soul ) changed at some of the imperialist states like France that its
borders opened to the countries citizens who colonized them in the past ( in
an attempt of the atonement for the self-reproach ) .. And such America (
with the Red Indians where it tries the atonement for its crimes with them
throughout their compensation what it deprived of it in the past is ! ) ...

And marks have appeared ( by surprise ) the destruction of these societies
throughout ( the smallest portents ) and that the factors of their power and
its spread consisted by .. ! Where the resolution of these societies
procrastinated the flabbiness result that injured it and the available from
its disintegration and the disintegration of its social components one and
cuts and their social relation ties tearing .. And for us an example in
Britain ( the greatest ) and that became later the merely of dog submissive
to its American master ...And such Albrtaal and Spain and France .. And
these are meeting he resolved on waiting ( the surprise ) after for them its
eldest portents appeared ! ... Then where the portents of these old
colonists met .. The hour of their destruction ( the surprise ) has met and
was restricted at ( their last extensions ) so and she ( Imirkshion ) ...

And from portents of the destruction of the small America and the greatest
it started appearing in the horizon and Allah know .... So that we see that
..
America swelled and splits it a lot ( and she is the attribute of its
civilization as being Fqaeia civilization you glorify it that through the
charm of the age the cinema spread ! Then she was deceived I defeat the
world ( and from them the poor slave ) .. Therefore then she deserves this
description what it is named America civilization ) ....
And America started with the adoption of the colonization concept that
preceded it .. ( but it came a late ) .. That is that the old colonization
colonized the countries a result ( ( ( the absence of the nations awareness
and from it the nations Islamic ) ) ) and the decline of these nations
civilizations and the corruption of their sons the flabbiness result the
available from the corruption by its kinds and by the kinds of the
behavioral and psychological sins and that were from the results of their
injury by ( the surprise ) after portents ( a hour ) appeared this the
greatest and small civilizations then they injured them ( the surprise and
the emergence of its resurrection ) at the hands of the colonization by its
kinds ! ..
( ( ( ( except Younis 's people is ! )))) ....

( then all .... And until some Islamic taking ) .. Since ..And before 300
years for example, and maintain close relations a stupidity and the
ignorance of these nations the limit that made from the European colonists
( from them some of the adventurers ) that they and at their entrance on
some of the tribes in battles, that it was many of the sons of these
defeated nations ( they fall on earth a prostrate ) to who they are called
them the fiery from the Europeans during the battles against them, as
assumed by these ignorant bullets are that they fight ( the gods are ! ) ..
Which facilitated many the operation of these nations colonization from
before their colonists is ! .....

She came America ( as a new colonization and an imperialist heir ) .. She
came a late ( rather ), then the nations of the colonies of the old
colonization became conscious and increased ( an ideological is !) and the
deepest civilized view from the old colonist himself ... Then she was here
the killing of America ( Wbghttha is ! ) ...
Portents ( a stroke ) have appeared America the smallest and the greatest in
an early way ..! That is that it became the struggle of developing and
conscious countries and for them acquired experiences in the conflict with
the colonist .... Which be tired this matter America and a reason of it are
big rises Whbotat ( a surprise ) is in the pressure ! And an acceleration
and a contraction in veins course and their bloody arteries are ! .. And
their society 's disintegration signs and the spread of its sins appeared
Wmfsqath by its kinds quickly and overtook .... Specially and that America
have appeared rushing and rapidly for a construction ( its empire is ! ) an
exploiting is fading and the recession of the fire of the old colonists (
and from them France and Britain that colonized America herself ! )
...Specially if what took into the consideration the spread of the
technology that shortens the distances and the times in each thing is ! And
from it ( the speed of the colonists recession is ! ) the result of the
spread of the killing means ( the fast ) the destruction of the parties both
and that the first excelled over the other ! Then the destruction weapons
that she herself will injure also ! ...
Then we can that we say that America is an expression about a colonist ( he
came in extra time ! ) .....
Portents of the hour of the greatest America have appeared in Vietnam and
Laos and Korea and Cambodia and Lebanon and Somalia .. America has lost all
these wars in these countries all, which injured them by many collapses
their more important is the collapse of the dollar ( but for the OPEC is
with the lead of ignorant the age and the infidels pack animals ) ..And also
.. ( the psychological crises of their soldiers ) and that from their
results ( Vietnam knot is ! ) America and because of her remained its wounds
licking period 30 years ! ...
And he has happened to America ( by surprise a minimized ) in the Vietnam
War when it escaped by a leaving pitch-dark night thousands of its soldiers
and the thousands from its mechanisms by their kinds an easy prey of the
Vietnamese ( I found your being ) ...Then the decision of its army 's
withdrawal from Vietnam was ( by surprise ) as France is from Algeria .. And
without prior notice !...

Consequently ... We can that we say .. The war of America is on Iraq and
Afghanistan it will be as ( the mercy hour ) then Iraq not Vietnam .. Then
it has all combating capabilities that accelerated in suddenly .. Or ( by
surprise ) America ... But this time she will be at the expense of ( its
resurrection ) also ...! ...

Among Saddam 's description for the expected collapse of America ( as being
the Americans knot axis in the Orient ) .. And that came also from its talks
with the army before the invasion is by days ... Where he said ...( (
America is like the horse Alhaig ... He remains Ykms * an easy * .. An easy
Wikms .. Witrbg * .. To that maybe it ( an inattentiveness ) Yngbh Wyoka by
a muddy * Ghmiga * after what piles eternity Mnhh !!! )) .....

She ( my view ) was built the humble is this on the basis of and considering
the unity of the creature in each thing and the harmony of all its parts (
until in the hateful from them ) ..And Allah know
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* Yngbh / ..He applies a land to its face
* he piles / ..He rises
* Ykms / .. He jumps randomly !
* an easy / ...Here and here
* Ytrbg / ... They fill the place a noise and a noise without a meaning !
* by a muddy / ...Clays heavy and sticky
* Ghmiga / ....A deep
* Mnhh / ...From it