SOMALIA
December 2011
'It may be premature to celebrate the fall of Gaddafi, especially since the National Transitional Council has introduced sharia'
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March 2010
‘The fighting in Somalia can no longer be dismissed as an obscure domestic struggle in an unimportant country of no wider relevance to the world. The crackle of machinegun fire in Mogadishu, the regular thwump of mortars, the ground-shaking shelling by Amisom tanks and the sporadic suicide attacks by delusional youths represent the frontline in the international fight against al-Qaeda.’
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March 2010
BY ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS
A week after British intelligence officials confirmed the growing international jihadis
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March 2010
BY ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS
In my first fortnightly column for New York's Hudson Institute, I describe how the current conflict i
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