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Somalia: "Washington's Disastrous Approach to Somalia"
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Saturday, April 12, 2008. Washington's Disastrous Approach to Somalia". Washington's Disastrous Approach to Somalia. Michael A. Weinstein. Professor of Political Science, Purdue University. April 1, 2008. What is Washington's policy towards Somalia? Anti-terrorism stripped out of its comprehensive cocoon is surely one of them. Most of all, however, Washington is confused and ambivalent; it does n...
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Somalia: February 2007
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Friday, February 23, 2007. Somalia Reverts to Political Fragmentation'. If you're a serious Somalia watcher, I strongly recommend you read PINR's in-depth examination of the post-intervention tragedy now unfolding in that country. Here are its introductory paragraphs (to jump to the complete article, click here. Or on the title line above):. Posted by Frank Crigler. Relative success" in Somalia.
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Somalia: November 2008
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Friday, November 21, 2008. How 'bout them Somali Pirates? A good friend argued with me at lunch today that there was no way the U.S. Navy was going to be effective in suppressing piracy off the coast of Somalia. "Very simply," he said, "the Navy doesn't have enough ships to do the job.". But the pirates’ biggest victim has been Somalia itself. Some 2.6m of the country’s 8m peo...It's worth readin...
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Somalia: August 2007
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Saturday, August 11, 2007. Two independent Somali journalists murdered; Mogadishu radio station shut down. Two Somali broadcast journalists were killed just hours apart Saturday in Mogadishu. Ali Iman Sharmarke, head of the HornAfrik media company, was killed by a roadside bomb as he was returning from the funeral of his employee, Mahad Ahmed Elmi, who had been shot to death earlier in the day.
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Rwanda: Rosamond Carr (1912 - 2006)
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Friday, December 01, 2006. Rosamond Carr (1912 - 2006). Leading off to one side of the front room was Rosamond’s bedroom, which featured more crisp linens and a snug bed-and-breakfast feel. A tiny toilet with rain-fed shower and washbowl adjoined the bedroom. Not long afterward, Rosamond returned to Mugongo and set about converting her plantation into a refuge for Rwandan children orphaned by the genocide. Rosamond Carr died just two months ago yesterday, at age 94, at her home in Rwanda, after spending ...
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Somalia: December 2006
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Saturday, December 30, 2006. Questions from a close friend. Following message from a distinguished diplomat and close friend reached me yesterday (my reply follows):. Are the Islamists in fact patriots with any realistic hope of unifying the country? What, practically, could diplomacy accomplish in these circumstances beyond a temporary pause in the bloodshed? What can diplomacy do? Well, diploma...
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Somalia: March 2007
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Saturday, March 31, 2007. Somali Diaspora Network issues urgent appeal. Attached in pdf format (click here to download and read). Posted by Frank Crigler. Friday, March 23, 2007. Repeating Our Mistakes in Somalia. The 2007 Graham A. Barden Lecture. Campbell University — Buies Creek, North Carolina. March 20. 2007. Repeating Our Mistakes in Somalia. Sounds auspicious, doesn’t it? 8226; Picture the...
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Somalia: "How 'bout them Somali Pirates?"
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Friday, November 21, 2008. How 'bout them Somali Pirates? A good friend argued with me at lunch today that there was no way the U.S. Navy was going to be effective in suppressing piracy off the coast of Somalia. "Very simply," he said, "the Navy doesn't have enough ships to do the job.". But the pirates’ biggest victim has been Somalia itself. Some 2.6m of the country’s 8m peo...It's worth readin...
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Somalia: We Confess, Muslims Want to Serve America!
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News and views about Somalia, its people, its governance, its neighbors, and U.S. policy toward that country. Monday, October 19, 2009. We Confess, Muslims Want to Serve America! Dear Capitol Hill: We Confess, Muslims Want to Serve America. Muslims trying to infiltrate the Congress by scheduling lobby days, or by simply meeting with their members of Congress? It's a testament to how far some right-wing conspiracy theories have come that even the normal behavior of any advocacy group can be used as so-cal...
