longwarjournal.org - 6/18/2009
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An al Qaeda-backed terror group assassinated the security minister of Somalia's struggling government in a suicide attack today that killed more than 20 people in the central part of the country.
Securityr Minister Omar Hashi Aden and Abdikarim Lakanyo, the former ambassador to Ethiopia, ...
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 ...
Somalia's rising tide of extremism
longwarjournal.org 3/12/2009 —
Imagery of a Shabaab fighter from the terror groups' website.
This week, four high-level US government officials testified at Senate hearings about the growing threat of terrorism emanating from Somalia. Two officials, Director ...
Former Islamic Courts Leader elected president of Somalia
longwarjournal.org 1/31/2009 —
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed (left) and Sheikh Yusuf Indohaadde during a news conference iin June 2006. Indohaadde, the former Defense Minister for the Islamic Courts Union, appeared on al Qaeda propaganda tapes .
Somalia's newly ...
U.S. launches missile attack in Somalia - Somalia- msnbc.com
msnbc.msn.com 9/21/2009 — MOGADISHU, Somalia - U.S. aircraft attacked a house in a southern Somali town before dawn Monday, targeting terrorism suspects as an Islamic group with links to al-Qaida appears to be gathering sway again in this lawless African nation. Residents and ...
Jihad leader returns to Somalia
jihadwatch.org 4/24/2009 —
Reconciler
In 2007 I wrote this in the Journal of International Security Affairs: "Aweys, who became the [Islamic Courts Union] group's leader around the same time it began to gain significant power in Somalia, struck an explicitly ...
WPR Article | Somalia: The Center Cannot Hold
worldpoliticsreview.com 8/16/2009 — The convergence last week of Secretary Clinton's trip to East Africa and the arrest in Australia of four men with links to the Somali al-Shabab movement on terrorism charges serves to highlight al-Shabab's emergence as an extremist threat. While ...
Hit & Run > The Anarchy Advantage in Somalia - Reason Magazine
reason.com 5/7/2009 — As Ethiopia invades to break the power of the Union of Islamic Courts over Mogadishu and much of Southern Somalia, Benjamin Powell over at the Independent Institute argues that Somalia has been doing better without an effective central government of ...
Somalia's Shabaab, Hizbul Islam seek merger
longwarjournal.org 7/25/2009 —
Image of a Shabaab fighter from the terror group's website.
The two main Islamist terror groups battling the weak Somali government may merge into a single outfit.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of Hizbul Islam or the ...
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.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Ethiopia troops 'back in Somalia'
news.bbc.co.uk 5/19/2009 — Ethiopian military forces have crossed back into Somalia, four months after leaving, witnesses told the BBC. Their reported return comes as Islamist militants continue to seize towns from the fragile Western-backed government. One resident said he saw ...
GOP watch: Against funding the troops? —
First Read 6/16/2009
Irony Alert: "House Republicans are preparing to vote en bloc against the $106 billion war-spending bill, a position once unthinkable for the party that characterized the money as support for the troops," The Hill points out. "For years, Republicans ...
Cantor keeps up Iran criticism —
First Read 6/18/2009
From NBC's Mark MurrayHouse Minority Whip Eric Cantor has fired off another tough statement criticizing President Obama's measured response to the protests and violence after Iran's disputed presidential election.
The human tragedy continues in ...
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