telegraph.co.uk - 12/26/2008
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Hardline Islamists are poised to take control of large areas of southern Somalia opening a possible new front in the war on terrorism.
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
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.
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How Bush Failed Somalia
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com - 12/27/2008
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Telegraph.co.uk 12/26/2008.... Hardline Islamists (Al-Shabaab) are poised to
take control of large areas of southern Somalia, opening...
a possible new front in the war on terrorism as Al-Shabaab terrorists are driectly linked to Al-Qaeda. The Dotster Web company in Vancouver WA has allowed ...
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Radical Islamists, Al-Shabaab, linked to al-Qaeda set to ...
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Somalia: Leader of dominant Shebab group says he is ready "to take orders from Sheikh Osama bin Laden"
Jihad Watch —
... -- that is, "the youth" -- are now in control of 80% of Somalia. If the youth of any civilization are that civilization's future, and if wherever one looks, Islam's youth are the most militant in their views, tenaciously upholding the doctrine of jihad, what does this bode for the future of Islam and its interactions with the rest of the non-Islamic world?
"Radical Islamists linked to al-Qaeda set to take control of Somalia," by Mike Pflanz for the Telegraph, December 26: Hardline Islamists are poised to take control of ...
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Theo Spark —
... Obama questioned by FBI agents over Blagojevich Illinois senate seat scandal. Tut tut. The Obamassiah's halo is slipping already. Record number out for Boxing Day hunt. Tally ho! CIA give Afghan warlords Viagra in exchange for information on Taliban. That's one way of keeping up support. Pakistan sends 20,000 troops to Indian frontier. This could go tits up very quickly. Radical Islamists linked to al-Qaeda set to take control of Somalia. Here we go again.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/27/2008
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... Al-Qaida-Linked Islamists Set to Take Control of Somalia ‘I’m not optimistic. The future looks bleak and is likely to be bloody’ An armed group styling itself Al-Shebab is likely to take over. Already, its fighters are believed to control more than 80 per cent of southern Somalia. These radical Islamists believe in imposing Sharia law and they recently approved the stoning of a 13-year-old girl. Al Shebab, the fanatical armed wing which broke from the Islamic Courts Union which ran Somalia ...
Poll: Six in 10 active-duty service members uncertain or pessimistic about Obama
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... . Are there any obvious trouble spots where The One might project a little force of his own to assert command? Eight in 10 respondents surveyed by MT support a build-up in Afghanistan, as of course does Obama, so he’s bound to earn some goodwill when he follows through on that. Same goes for any predator strikes in Waziristan, of course. Exit question: If that’s not enough, how about … Somalia !
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