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Somalia's fate is attracting international attention because of its link to the war against terror. After dismissing comparisons to the Taliban when they took over the Somali capital this summer, the Islamic Courts promptly set about emulating them. Clerics threatened death to those who did not pray five times...
With that background, the world - and the U.S. in particular - was never going to forget Somalia easily. As the only officially Christian country in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has long been wary of Somalia's Islamic militias, which it describes as a "regional menace." (While it is officially Christian...
The U.S. support for the corrupt, violent and self-serving warlords alienated many Somalis - and some analysts argue actually strengthened the popularity of the Islamists, enabling Somalia's top Islamic body, the Council of Islamic Courts, to take over Mogadishu and expel the warlords in June. The arrival of Islamist...
For all the involvement of outside players, however, the Somali conflict remains a domestic power struggle at heart. It pits the Transitional Federal Government, a product of years of painstaking horse-trading among rival clan warlords, against the Council of Islamic Courts, a loose Islamist alliance strongly nationalist in character...
U.S. diplomats have done their best to trumpet the milquetoast sanctions imposed on Iran Saturday by the U.N. Security Council as raising pressure on the Islamic Republic to end its nuclear defiance. But Tehran may instead be buoyed by last week's events in Beijing, where the failure of six...