Word: somali
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...rocket launcher. The cheap, portable, recoilless Soviet-designed rocket launcher has long been a favorite of guerrilla armies everywhere, because it evens up the odds against more heavily armed and armored enemies. The Afghans and Chechens have used them to devastating effect against the Russians, and Somali militiamen used one to down a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in Mogadishu. And they may be an even more attractive option in Baghdad because of the fact that, as one commentator has noted, "superbly effective and light bullet-proof vests and helmets make the U.S. and British soldier almost as well protected...
...running operations for Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist group based in northeastern Iraq with suspected links to a-Qaeda. Ansar forces in Iraq were also routed last week in fighting with coalition-backed Kurdish troops. Italian authorities charged two Kurds from northern Iraq, two Tunisians, an Egyptian and a Somali with international terrorism, accusing them of providing false documents, financing and recruiting for Ansar, which is allegedly headed by Abu Mussab Al Zarkqawi, one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants. According to Italian police transcripts obtained by TIME, several of those arrested made apparent references to future attacks...
...There was a very rich meeting of culture between her Somali mother’s background and her Danish father’s,” said Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson. “She was very deliberate about gaining a deeper understanding of her twin backgrounds...
Raised to speak Danish, English and Somali, Smith also learned French, German and Luxembourgish. At Harvard, she was studying Italian...
...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...