Word: somali
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...Portland, Maine? The answer may be getting clearer in the wake of the feds' domestic shutdown last week of Al-Barakaat, a financial network based in Dubai--with at least six U.S. storefronts--accused of financing Osama bin Laden. The purported purpose of the U.S. sites was for Somali emigres to wire money back home. But two senior Bush Administration officials tell TIME that bin Laden was an Al-Barakaat founder and that Al-Barakaat's chief, Ahmed Nur Ali Jamale, steered money--possibly tens of millions of dollars a year--to a Somali affiliate of al-Qaeda known...
...colleagues—to risk their lives for the sake of a few pictures. Mavroleon was one of two journalists featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host is Eldon’s sister, Amy Eldon, and its producer is his mother, Kathy Eldon, who is also an international journalist...
Massachusetts schools are known for their large bilingual programs. Some public school systems teach in 18 different languages, from Somali to Romanian, in an effort to secure for every person the right to a free public education. Unz’s proposal would undermine this education at a time when bilingual students are already facing dismally high failure rates on the state’s high-stakes MCAS exam. Voters should not allow the rug to be slipped out from under the feet of those who are just learning to stand...
...always have a hard time getting the attention of the brass leading conventional forces--they operated under very restrictive rules during the Gulf War--and they have had their setbacks. A Delta Force team was chewed up in the streets of Mogadishu in 1993, when it tried to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid. And in Afghanistan, where the terrain is about as unforgiving as any on earth, and the population as warlike, they won't be able to hold territory for long...
Mogadishu Oct. 3, 1993 Bin Laden has hinted his men killed 18 Army Rangers in a firefight in the Somali capital during U.S. operations there. No firm evidence...