prospect.org - 12/20/2008
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Two years ago the United States intervened in East African politics in a way that has been responsible for the deaths of untold thousands of people, has created the pirate problem, and is breeding a new generation of anti-American jihadists.
telegraph.co.uk - 12/26/2008
usatoday.com - 12/19/2008
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usatoday.com —
The Somali immigrant, who moved to the "Land
of 10,000 Lakes" when he was 8, had good...
grades at the University of Minnesota and called Muslims to prayer at his mosque, where he also slept during the holy month of Ramadan. But on Nov. 1, Hassan ...
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Somalis may be leaving Minn. for jihad
littlurl.com - 12/20/2008
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Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751
(1992) concerning Somalia UN SITE SEARCH: Home Resolutions Committee...
Guidelines Annual Reports Selected Documents Monitoring Group on Somalia Press Releases Sanctions Committees ...
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Reports concerning Somalia - 751
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Failing to Understand Somalia
Weekly Standard Blog —
... There is plenty of criticism to direct at the Bush administration for its failure to develop a coherent strategy to deal with the al Qaeda-backed insurgency. But Matthew Yglesias's criticism is far wide of the mark. Yglesias demonstrates a clear lack of understanding of the situation in the region, the nature of the Islamic Courts, Ethiopia’s strategic interests in preventing the rise to power of the al Qaeda-backed Islamic Courts, and the recent history in Eastern Africa. ...
Good News (By Somalia Standards)
Matthew Yglesias —
The situation in Somalia continues to be extraordinarily bad, but the resignation of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed from the presidency of Somalia’s de jure but powerless government counts as good news. His hardline stance has, along with incredibly irresponsible behavior from the US and Ethiopia been a significant contributor to Somalia’s problems. I wouldn’t say that this makes a turnaround likely, but it’s certainly more likely than it was before. ...
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Imagery of a Shabaab fighter from the terror groups' website.
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voanews.com 1/28/2009 — Kilner report - Download (MP3) audio clip Kilner report - Listen (MP3) audio clip The U.N. Special Humanitarian Envoy appealed for increased attention to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, following a trip to the country. As Derek Kilner reports from ...
Shabaab takes control of Somalia's seat of government
longwarjournal.org 1/26/2009 —
Click map to view. Southern Somalia is now under the control of Shabaab and other Islamist groups. Map created by Bill Raymond for The Long War Journal .
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Somali jihadists reaping benefits of piracy
jihadwatch.org 11/21/2008 — That by itself is nothing new , but the increasingly brazen attacks on increasingly high-value targets are. "Pirates 'working with Islamists'," by Martin Plaut for BBC News , November 19:
Somali pirates have been accused of forming what is ...
Shabaab on the offensive in Somalia
longwarjournal.org 5/18/2009 — The newly formed Somali government is in danger of being ousted from its remaining strongholds in Mogadishu and central Somalia as Shabaab and Hizbul Islam took control of a key city.
Shabaab and Hizbul Islam seized the central town of Jowhar in ...
Islamists’ Advance: No Effect on U.N. Aid to Somalia
warisboring.com 11/25/2008 — There were some alarmist headlines when Islamist fighters seized the strategic port of Merka in southern Somalia this month. “The threat the [Islamic Courts Union] posed in late 2006 has thus re-materialized: that Islamists will Talibanize ...
An American Jihadi in Somalia and His Washington Friends in al Qaeda
mypetjawa.mu.nu 1/13/2009 — We reported last month that Washington state jihadi Ruben Shumpert (a.k.a. Amir Abdul Muhaimeen) was recently killed in Somalia fighting for the al Qaeda linked al Shebaab. You'll recall that Shumpert actually called the FBI from Somalia mocking their ...
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