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voanews.com - 1/28/2009
UN Envoy Calls Attention to Somalia Humanitarian Crisis
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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 Nairobi, humanitarian agencies are warning ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/27/2009
Somali insurgents take Baidoa after Ethiopians leave - Yahoo! News
— 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 ... (more) Somali insurgents take Baidoa after Ethiopians leave - ...

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newsweek.com - 1/26/2009
Recruited for Jihad? | Newsweek International
— 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 ... (more) Recruited for Jihad? | Newsweek International

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/28/2009
The End in Somalia
— 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 ... (more) The End in Somalia

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Obsidian Wings — ... Back to the costs of Option B, though.  The reason that military force should always be the option of last resort is that its use creates unpredictable and uneven outcomes in terms of what was intended, and, generally speaking, a lot of people end up dead, humanitarian crises abound and cycles of violence tend to reverberate and expand outward.  Our dalliance in the Horn has been no different.  According to the UN envoy in August 2008: ...

Somalia, We Hardly Knew Ya
Newshoggers.com — ... Back to the costs of Option B, though.  The reason that military force should always be the option of last resort is that its use creates unpredictable and uneven outcomes in terms of what was intended, and, generally speaking, a lot of people end up dead, humanitarian crises abound and cycles of violence tend to reverberate and expand outward.  Our dalliance in the Horn has been no different.  According to the UN envoy in August 2008: ...

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