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...found when they settled in a five-bedroom house in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain, Ga. Then, in the fall of 2000, when Mohamed, 39, broke her leg and was unable to work and help pay the rent, the family's security seemed at risk again. A Somali friend living in Maine offered a solution: the homeless shelters there were so spacious, she said, that Mohamed could comfortably raise her six children...
...only knowledge most had about Somalia was from Black Hawk Down--Ridley Scott's graphic depiction of the 1993 raid in which Somali militias killed 18 U.S. soldiers, including one from a town that borders Lewiston. It didn't help that many Somalis are dependent on social services, taxing the already limited resources of the city. "I don't know what kind of grants the Somalis are getting, but they seem to be at the top of the list," says Linda Hubbard, 42, who moved from Lewiston to nearby Auburn. "A lot of us are just getting...
Morgan charges the cover price for her books, while the big boxes often discount, but she carries hundreds of titles they don't stock. Being nimble and able to respond rapidly to local trends also fattens her bottom line. After noticing that Minneapolis' Somali-American community was booming, she started purchasing books written in Somali with English translations. When she discovered that local schools were ramping up French classes, she stocked more French-English titles...
...motion new terrorist missions. Knowing the U.S. Navy was scheduled to conduct joint exercises in the Surabaya harbor in late May, al-Faruq plotted a suicide attack against a U.S. ship, similar to the deadly al-Qaeda operation against the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. He drafted a Somali operative named Gharib to help find Arabs willing to participate in the suicide mission. But when he failed to recruit enough operatives to carry out the plan, al-Faruq had to scrap...
...enlisted man in the 1st Battalion of the 87th Infantry Regiment, "we would have landed someplace else." The U.S. troops didn't have the men or firepower to scale the rocks and wipe out the enemy fighters. But Perez and the others in command remembered the 1993 Somali fire fight--a panicky retreat in which 18 Americans were killed--and they decided to dig in. "We didn't run from the fight," says Grippe. "It wasn't a Mogadishu...