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...Somalia's most dangerous export is terrorism. Before the Bush Administration's Iraq digression, Somalia was target No. 2 in the war on terrorism, behind Afghanistan. After all, it was a Somalia-based al-Qaeda group that killed 224 people in the twin bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. But it wasn't until the end of 2006, when Somalia was invaded by the U.S.-allied Ethiopia, that American covert missions targeted the embassy bombers. One of the masterminds, explosives expert Abu Taha al-Sudani, is now dead, as is Aden Hashi Farah Ayro...
...encouraging development in Somalia is the emergence of Iraq-style Awakening militias made up of moderate Somalis, who have taken on al-Shabaab in street battles in recent weeks. If Ethiopian and African Union troops withdraw as expected in the next few months and Somalis increasingly have to fend for themselves, the chances are that this will grow into a full-scale conflict. Still, an Awakening would also offer Somalia's best hope of keeping its extremists in check. Perhaps only in Somalia could the prospect of more war be a sign of hope...
They are "the unwanted, doing the unforgivable, for the ungrateful," according to a tattoo adorning an American private security contractor--one of the tens of thousands of mercenaries who work alongside the understaffed U.S. military in the shadows of the Iraq war. Fainaru, a Washington Post reporter and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, was embedded with the mercs of Crescent Security Group--a ragged outfit that "commutes to war" in armored pickup trucks from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Coté, a former paratrooper...
...gripe about the cost.' ELIZABETH HASSELBECK, co-host of ABC's The View, criticizing colleague Joy Behar for commemorating Veterans Day by listing stats about the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq...
Because of poor planning and ill-prepared government agencies, the U.S. military has assumed the primary responsibility for humanitarian aid in Iraq and Afghanistan, several war veterans said at a panel in Cabot House yesterday...