Word: qaeda
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...Canal. Somalia has been convulsed by civil war since 1991, and as an attendant humanitarian disaster involving millions of refugees has spread chaos and lawlessness across the land, piracy at sea has rocketed. The primary strategic concern of the U.S. in the region appears to be rooting out al-Qaeda, which is why the U.S. military backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to prevent a popular Islamist movement from taking power. But the Islamists remain powerful, and the still violent stalemate clouds any prospect of restoring law and order onshore. Although the pirates lack the quays to take the tanks...
...Pakistan TAKING FLIGHT Afghan workers are preparing shelters for the estimated 20,000 Pakistanis who have fled into eastern Afghanistan amid a military crackdown in the Bajaur region, where government troops are clashing with Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. Pakistani officials say coalition troops battling the Taliban on the Afghan side of the border must do more to stop the flow of rebels into Bajaur...
...slamming Obama for not supporting the surge. But Obama's litany of things McCain had gotten wrong ("You said that we were going to be greeted as liberators ...") was devastating. And his bottom line - that the war in Iraq had been a diversion from the real fight against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan - made far more sense...
...That legislation has spelled trouble for Ali and his cohorts. Fueled by fears that the cache of weapons could make its way to al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, the U.S. sent warships to encircle the anchored vessel as an international fleet hurried to join them. In his interview with the Times, Ali seemed cheerfully fatalistic about the prospect of tangling with the world's naval superpowers: "We know you only die once." Rumors flew that three pirates had already perished during a shootout stemming from a disagreement over whether to surrender, but the pirate spokesman dismissed the claim. He said...
...that will be incorporated into the security forces can at least protect themselves, but what about the 80%?" the sheikh asks. "How are they going to protect themselves against al-Qaeda, against the terrorists...