Word: somali
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...crew were in trouble. The waters off East Africa were unseasonably flat and the Semlow, loaded with 850 tons of rice, food aid for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan man with a gray beard and 20 years' experience on the high seas. "Straight away I knew it must be pirates...
...weren't exaggerating. The waters off Somalia are right now some of the most dangerous in the world for sailors. Somalia's pirates used to be small fish compared to the bandits who strike in Asia's Malacca Straits and South China Sea. But over the past seven months, Somali pirates have attacked 25 vessels, including the Semlow in June, another ship carrying food aid in September, a Maltese-registered cargo ship carrying 15 tons of iron ore, and, just last weekend, a cruise ship with some 300 American and British holidaymakers aboard. (Though the pirates fired semiautomatic weapons...
MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID From fugitive to victor over the U.S., the Somali clan leader returns from hiding more powerful than ever...
...July 21 bombing suspects may turn out to be easier than what comes next. Of the July 7 and July 21 suspects, only one had previously even tweaked the interest of the security services, implying that a lot more networks of homegrown terrorists could be out there--Pakistani, Somali, Eritrean, Jamaican, North African, perhaps many others in a country with 1.6 million Muslims. In a poll of British Muslims published last week, 4% of those surveyed said they believe "it is acceptable for religious or political groups to use violence for political ends." One official estimates there are at least...
...what the documents actually say and did not get caught up in the so-called spirit of Vatican II, which was so prevalent in the late 1960s and '70s. (The Rev.) John A. Cramer South Bend, Indiana, U.S. I was upset by your choice of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch politician and director whose film Submission portrays a Muslim woman ritually abused by the men in her family. As a female practicing Muslim living in the West, I have found it frustrating that the Western media are obsessed with the "plight" of Muslim women. While there is progress...