Word: northerners
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...Somalia is a mosaic of clans and subclans. The men who captured Mogadishu in January 1991 and put President Mohammed Siad Barre to flight belong to the Hawiye clan. The northern quarter of the capital is held by the , Abagal subclan of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed. The Habar Gedir subclan of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid dominates the southern three-fourths. At the beginning of last year, hatred of Siad Barre united the groups, but that unity is long gone. Another clan has declared an independent Somaliland in the north; yet another controls the land south and west of Mogadishu...
Finn, who is a U2 fan, said he believes young Irish people should hear the band's message. "A lot of their songs are very much in line with peace in Northern Ireland," Finn said...
...this bald itinerary is all the romance that Forster and his generation felt for northern Italy. It summons the glory days when the English commandeered the Continent as if it were a feral cricket pitch and great novelists wrote about gentry who were slow to realize that Italy held in its heart secrets beyond their grasp...
...show immediate foot in the North to avoid being tagged a regional candidate," Clinton said several months ago. "I'll do well on Super Tuesday too, but Illinois is basically the ball game. If I score there, I've got the momentum to roll in the other big Northern states. Lose there and, well, let's just say it won't be pretty. Illinois is the real test...
...siege situation of Syrian Jewry is no different. While no one expects even a flinch from Assad--a man who had no qualms about bulldozing over the northern Syrian town of Hama in 1982, burying 20,000 of his own citizens in the process--in response to a student protest, possibilities for change are beginning to surface...