Word: somalia
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...being noticed. Lebanon has a large population of Iraqis, Sudanese and Somalis, as well as guest workers from the Philippines and Sri Lanka, who are too poor to pay their way out. And their governments are either ineffective (Iraq, Sudan) inattentive (the Philippines, Sri Lanka) or non-existent (Somalia), and have not offered any resources for these people...
...plans to unilaterally redraw its borders; all the while, it is responding to rockets fired from Gaza with military strikes. But the sum total of all of these pressures may spell the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, leaving Israel living alongside a chaotic political entity not altogether unlike Somalia: awash with guns, broken into mini-fiefdoms ruled by unstable coalitions of warlords, and fertile soil for al-Qaeda...
...usual Israeli-Palestinian antagonism. Monday's attacks on the Palestinian parliament and government offices by gunmen of the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas are a reminder that tensions between the Palestinian factions are escalating into low-intensity civil war - one in which the U.S. could suffer, as in Somalia, as a result of aligning itself too closely with factions viewed with hostility by many of those on the sidelines...
...that was elected on promises of implementing a unilateral solution. But if the Palestinian Authority collapses, as it threatens to do under the combined weight of Palestinian infighting, Western financial pressure and Israeli bombardment, then Israel will find itself living alongside something akin to a failed state, not unlike Somalia. If so, the dangers to Israel - and the West - will grow no matter how tight a border Olmert maintains...
...Until we get the Islamic state, we will continue with the Islamic struggle in Somalia." SHEIKH SHARIF AHMED, chairman of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union, after Islamic militias overcame U.S.-backed warlords and seized control of the capital, Mogadishu, last week...