swamppolitics.com - 1/21/2009
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by Josh Meyer
The swearing-in of Barack Obama came off without a security-related hitch today, but underneath the calm veneer, federal authorities were intensively investigating a report that a group of Somalia-based militants wanted to launch some kind of inauguration-related attack.
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news.yahoo.com - 1/27/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
BAIDOA (Reuters) Hardline Islamist insurgents captured the central
town of Baidoa on Monday, an important stronghold of...
Somalia's fragile government and seat of the national parliament, witnesses said. Just hours after Ethiopia withdrew its last ...
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Somali insurgents take Baidoa after Ethiopians leave - ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/28/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
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 ...
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The End in Somalia
voanews.com - 1/28/2009
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voanews.com —
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 ...
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UN Envoy Calls Attention to Somalia Humanitarian Crisis
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Betrayed By His Own People: Feds Feared Somali Attack On Obama During Inauguration
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... The Swamp: The swearing-in of Barack Obama came off without a security-related hitch today, but underneath the calm veneer, federal authorities were intensively investigating a report that a group of Somalia-based militants wanted to launch some kind of inauguration-related attack. ...
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