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Excellent interview with Richard Cornwell on the Somalia situation: “The worst thing that we’re doing is constantly looking at this through the al-Qaeda lens, through the terrorism lens. We are not going to make sense of what’s happening on the ground
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The always reliable TFG claims that warlords have agreed to disarm and join the national army… while those warlords were attacking the new seat of government. And Oxfam reports that anti-“Al Qaeda” strikes killed 70 nomadic herdsmen and their animals.
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Good article on the chaos and confusion following the US/Ethiopian invasion of Somalia: “As with the Americans in Iraq, the Ethiopians may find that invading and subduing the country is a lot easier than leaving it in one piece.”
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Somalia violence timeline (from late 2004 to present)
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“I would rather die than stay here forever, and I have tried to commit suicide many times. The purpose of Guantanamo is to destroy people, and I have been destroyed. .. If I die, please remember that there was a human being named Jumah at Guantanamo”
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DavidW has a good overview of the new, proposed Wikileaks project, including some interesting concerns and objections
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FAQ for Wikileaks. When someone says something is “uncensorable”, that’s when I reach for my revolver
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Rebecca unpacks the Edelman blog survey: “Blogs are much more influential in Japan, South Korea, and China than they are in the West”