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...ROAD TO AIDID RUNS THROUGH GEORGIA, EVENTUALLY Washington -- When Jimmy Carter visited the White House last month, he carried a message from Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid of his willingness to cooperate with an investigation into the killings of U.N. peacekeepers. Since Somalia wasn't a front-burner issue then, President Clinton filed the tip away but asked National Security Adviser Anthony Lake to debrief Carter at some . point. That point wasn't reached until after the Oct. 3 attack that killed 18 U.S. soldiers. Lake flew to Plains last Thursday to meet with Carter...
...Ayro had been trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, where he later fought alongside the Taliban against the Northern Alliance and the U.S. before returning to Somalia in 2003 to join - and quickly come to lead - a group of Somali and foreign radical militants that had been established by Osama bin Laden in remote swamps in the southeast of the country. It was this group that Washington blames for the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and for the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, as well as several other...
...Ayro was the target of a previous U.S. operation in January, 2007, involving thousands of U.S. personnel at sea off the Somali coast, as well as U.S. warplanes and special forces. He was believed to have been wounded in that attack, but resurfaced two months later to urge Somalis to fight the Ethiopian occupiers. Last November, he issued another proclamation, hailing bin Laden and calling on Somalis to target Ugandan peacekeepers and to pursue the Ethiopians to Addis Ababa, where he said they should behead their women and children...
Even by the standards of Somalia, a country gripped by chaos for 17 years, it has been a horrible couple of weeks. First came the killings of two British Somali teachers and their Kenyan colleagues, all said to have been shot in the head. Then pirates waylaid a French yacht traversing the country's territorial waters. And now, renewed fighting in Mogadishu has killed at least 100 people and driven thousands more to join the country's swelling refugee population - already estimated at more than 1.5 million. Meanwhile, aid groups have found themselves targets in the fighting across the country...
...hint of hope for Somalia's future with a promise to negotiate with the Islamists. But now, amid the latest fighting and allegations of rights abuses by Ethiopian troops, those tentative hopes seem to have been crushed. "We are not going to talk to with the Ethiopians and the [Somali government] right now because they are the same," Ahmed Abdallah, spokesman for the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, told TIME. "There is no reason for Ethiopia to stay in Somalia for one more hour. If they leave, the peace process can take hold...