nytimes.com - 12/7/2008
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With the government on the brink and the Islamists about to seize control again, the question is: Now what? >
islamineurope.blogspot.com - 12/7/2008
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More and more Somalis with a residence permit
in Denmark are going to back their former homeland
to get military training and religious school at the al-Qaeda related terror group al-Shabab. This has gotten the Danish intelligence service to pay more ...
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Denmark: Somalis leaving to fight in Somalia
foxnews.com - 12/4/2008
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foxnews.com —
Thursday, December 04, 2008 By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Dozens
of young Somali men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
have disappeared in recent months, causing community members and U.S. intelligence officials to fear that they are joining jihadist ...
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Jihad Recruiting Effort May Explain Missing Somalis in ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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Ethiopia entered Somalia two years ago to remove
the Union of Islamic Courts , elements of whose
leadership had been making provocative and aggressive statements about Ethiopia. But the reality is that Ethiopian intervention, backed by the US and ...
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Ethiopia's Somalia dilemma
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Obsidian Wings —
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Another ringing empirical endorsement of the Kagan/Kristol worldview via the NYT's article on Somalia:
In 2006, Islamist troops teamed up with clan elders and businessmen to drive out the warlords who had been preying upon Somalia’s people since the central government first collapsed in 1991. The six months the Islamists ruled Mogadishu turned out to be one of the most peaceful periods in modern Somali history.
But today’s Islamists are a harder, more brutal group than the ones who were ousted by an Ethiopian ...
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The Sideshow —
... Obama will put forward retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in his cabinet - which is good, because if they'd listened to Shinseki, there wouldn't be so many vets desperately needing help in the first place. What happened when Obama phoned a Republican. Bush administration to eliminate Congressional authority. The Real Bill Ayers by William Ayers in The New York Times. Looks like the Bushistas have turned Somalia into a libertarian paradise. This article about something else entirely is also a good example ...
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longwarjournal.org 1/31/2009 —
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How Bush Failed Somalia
prospect.org 12/20/2008 — 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.
Five suicide bombers strike in northern Somalia
longwarjournal.org 10/30/2008 — Northern Somalia was rocked today with five suicide attacks on multiple facilities, killing 28 and wounding scores. The attacks appear to be the handiwork of Shabaab, the al Qaeda backed Islamist terror group seeking to retake control of the country. ...
The End in Somalia
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/28/2009 — The disastrous American-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia seems to have reached its ultimate conclusion today as the Ethiopian-backed nominal government totally collapses and Islamist insurgents capture Baidoa. Now we’ll have to reach some ...
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 .
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia took control of the last stronghold of ...
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 ...
News | Africa
africa.reuters.com 11/16/2008 — MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents whipped 32 people in Somalia on Saturday after arresting them for taking part in a traditional dance in rebel-held territory south of the capital Mogadishu. Fighters enforcing a strict form of sharia law have ...
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 ...
UN Envoy Calls Attention to Somalia Humanitarian Crisis
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 ...
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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