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From outside Africa, the response has been patchy. There is some financial assistance, much of it from the U.S. (The A.U. peacekeepers have cost $160 million so far.) In 2007, the U.S. sent special-operations teams in with the Ethiopians and - says Abdirashid Mohamed Hiddig, a Somali Member of Parliament who assisted the Americans - captured 10 to 20 foreign fighters. Since then, according to Pentagon spokesmen, the U.S. has carried out at least six aerial attacks inside Somalia, killing al-Shabab leader Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, who was hit by a missile in May 2008, and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan...
...Somalis in Denmark are shocked at what happened and strongly condemn it. They see it as the work of one man and don't understand how he could do a thing like that - someone who grew up in Denmark," says Abdirashid N. Artan, a social worker and chairman of the Somali Youth & Development Network, an organization that works with troubled young Somalis in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. (See the top 10 cartoons...
...Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga met his Somali counterpart, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to discuss the seven-week onslaught by the Islamists that has killed hundreds, including several senior government figures, and displaced more than 100,000 - adding to the millions of Somalis already living as refugees and dependent on food aid. After the meeting, Sharmarke said, "In this critical time of our history, I think you might help. We are dealing with a threat that can engulf the entire region. Our security forces need military assistance, and we hope the world [will...
...capital of neighboring Kenya, Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke said he had information that more than 100 people were killed. The attack underlined fears that Somalia is developing into a third front in the war against terrorism and militant Islam. It also was the bloodiest episode in two months of heavy fighting in which Sharif's beleaguered government has consistently ceded ground and lives to Sharif's former allies in Somalia's hard-line Islamist movement. (See pictures of Somalia's pirates...
...disclose the scale and scope of American antiterrorist operations carried out at roughly the same time. But they were substantial, with a significant naval presence offshore, special-operations forces and missions flown from nearby airfields, all designed to degrade the capacity of local Islamist militants. In early January, says Abdirashid Mohamed Hiddig, a member of the Somalian parliament, the Ethiopians asked him to fly to Kulbio, Somalia. There, he says, U.S. plainclothes personnel and military personnel were sifting prisoners, looking for al-Qaeda. Human Rights Watch, a humanitarian organization based in New York City, says Ethiopian and Kenyan security forces...