news.yahoo.com - 1/27/2009
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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 troops from Baidoa and pulled back across the ...
newsweek.com - 1/26/2009
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newsweek.com —
It didn't trouble Burhan Hassan 's mother that
her son had been spending more time at the
Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, Minneapolis 's largest mosque. A 17-year-old senior at Roosevelt High, Hassan and his family had fled civil war in Somalia ...
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Recruited for Jihad? | Newsweek International
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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The End in Somalia
Matthew Yglesias —
... 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 kind of accommodation with the Islamists, which is what we should have done back in late 2006, but we’re now going to be dealing with a more radicalized and anti-American crew than otherwise would have been there. ...
Somalia, We Hardly Knew Ya
Obsidian Wings —
... beat me to the punch*, but it's still worth discussing recent developments in Somalia. Basically, the last of the Ethiopian troops (those left over from a December 2006 invasion that the US government actively supported) withdrew from Somalia, and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) propped up by Ethiopia's forces quickly fell: ...
Somalia, We Hardly Knew Ya
Newshoggers.com —
... beat me to the punch, but it's still worth discussing certain aspects of the recent developments in Somalia. Basically, the last of the Ethiopian troops (those left over from a December 2006 invasion that the US government actively supported) withdrew from Somalia, and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) propped up by Ethiopia's forces quickly fell: ...
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