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...survey the damage. But before they can begin rebuilding the country, they must face down the powerful Islamic courts and placate the businessmen. These groups form a powerful élite that has filled the vacuum left by the fading might of the warlords, who destroyed Mogadishu after Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991. The most determined opposition will come from the Islamic courts. Started as small-scale operations set up by the city's clans, they gained influence when Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Islamic countries provided funding as part of a drive to promote Islam. Now the courts...
...have our problems,” he siad. “In Night I said some harsh things, but I never divorced God. I was ready to be an orphan...but not a divorce...
...inspectors also completed their first visit to Libya. An End to Anarchy? SOMALIA Warlords who control most of the country joined politicians and other traditional leaders to sign a landmark agreement to establish what would be the country's first real national government since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Under the Kenyan-brokered deal, a new parliament selected along clan lines will appoint a President who in turn will appoint a Prime Minister. Crisis Looming DOMINICAN REPUBLIC At least six people died in clashes with police during a 48-hour strike to protest the spiraling economic...
...wasn't the first time Hirsi Ali fled persecution. The daughter of a leading Somali opposition leader, she was born just a few weeks after the coup by Mohammed Siad Barre in 1969 and was forced into exile with her family when she was 10. She was brought up as a traditional Muslim girl in Kenya, although her father was progressive enough to insist that his daughter receive an education. At 22, confronted with an arranged marriage to a distant cousin in Canada ("I was repelled by his comment that I would bear him six sons," she says), she decided...
...They were great, they were tenacious,” Mazzoleni siad. “It was a very, very good line for us tonight...