What Nobody Wants To Know About Somalia And Why; And What That Means
Friday, October 03, 2008

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The web site carrying a story on the "hijacked" Iranian ship, the Long War Journal is mobbed up with the Weekly Standard, the National Review and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies--a Pentagon front.

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Dozens killed in south Somali face-off

Somali leader's allies on looting spree
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:17:10 GMT

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Guest Voice

Somalia: Time to Pay Attention

The United States has contributed to the mess in Somalia by failing to grasp the nuances of the Muslim world.

By Frankie Martin

While the world looks elsewhere, Somalia is in flames. The nation just topped a list of the world’s most unstable countries by Foreign Policy magazine, and the United Nations has ( Read more... )

America's way of making friends...dead

UN warns Somali crisis could rival '92-93 famine

Daniel Wallis

Reuters North American News Service

Jul 15, 2008 11:31 EST

NAIROBI, July 15 (Reuters) - The killing and kidnapping of aid workers in Somalia threatens to wreck all attempts to resolve a humanitarian disaster that could soon rival its famine in the early ( Read more... )

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Bush’s Rampage in Somalia

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17 July 2008

Saved and Depoliticised at One Stroke

Jeremy Harding reports from Kosovo

‘Humanitarian intervention’ has little to show for its brief appearance on the international stage. It arrived too late for Rwanda, gestured helplessly at Bosnia and, at last, in 2003, it was discovered in the arms of Shock and ( Read more... )

Al-Qaeda finds three safe havens for terror training

Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terrorist organisation, driven out of Afghanistan and defeated in Iraq, is re-emerging in strength in three alternative safe havens for training, operational planning and recruiting - Pakistan, Somalia and Algeria - according to Western intelligence and defence ( Read more... )

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"Although it is never stated publicly, smashing Hamas and crippling Iran would be essential for the Zionist and militaristic wing of the Israeli elites in advancing the larger project of Eretz Israel. This greater Israel would include most, if not all of the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and south Lebanon up to the Litani River, an extremely ( Read more... )

Independent.co.uk

By Steve Bloomfield in Nairobi

Friday, 13 June 2008

The British and US governments are complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Ethiopian army in the Ogaden region of the Horn of Africa, a human rights group has claimed.

A report by Human Rights Watch details allegations of rape, torture and public ( Read more... )