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Somalia: UN Says It's Time To Return To Mogadishu

Inter Press Service | Posted 08.30.2009 | World

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By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Somalia, a perpetually violence-prone country described as one of the world's failed states, may go t...

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The US Role in Somalia's Calamity

Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

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US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.

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Editorial: American View On Somali Crisis Shortsighted

WardheerNews | Faisal Roble | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

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Ethiopian troops, protected by US air power, invaded Somalia on Christmas Eve of 2006 to break the chokehold of that country by Islamists. The pressi...

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