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Red Cross Provided With Location of Secret Somali Prison Used by CIA

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Democracy Now! correspondent and The Nation investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill provides an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson with the location of the secret prison used by the CIA he uncovered in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, which the Red Cross says it didn't know existed. "There are scores of people that have been held without charge in this basement and some for more than 18 months," Scahill says. "The Red Cross should be insisting on access to the prison, which is within [a] Somali government compound."

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Who's funding Al Shabaab's war in Somalia?

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Nov. 05 (Investigative Report) - Somalia's Al Shabaab rebels have stepped up fighting in Mogadishu with support from international sources. Here Somali women demonstrate their support of Al Shabaab in Mogadishu.

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Battle for Mogadishu escalates

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Oct. 28 (Special Report) - The fighting is the worst the city has seen in almost 20 years. Somalia's stateless chaos first began when the military regime of Mohamed Siad Barre collapsed in 1991. Since Al Shabaab carried out double suicide bombings killing 79 football fans in Kampala in July, the 7,000 mostly Ugandan peacekeepers have fought back hard.

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Enlightenment Islam?

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Oct. 26 (Special Report) - The program belongs to a new fashion: Europe educating its own imams. Experts have warned for years that Islamic religious leaders in Europe have been trained abroad, in Arabic or Turkish. Rauf Ceylan, a professor of religious studies in Osnabrück, Germany, says imams in his country by and large can’t understand the problems of their flocks or speak the language.

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SoundClick artist: David Rovics - Pirates of Somalia

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

soundclick.com - By David Rovics - Sep. 18 (Other) - audio

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Somalia Piracy Began in Response to Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping by Western Ships off Somali Coast

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Mohamed Abshir Waldo, Amy Goodman - Apr. 14 (News Analysis) - While the pirates story has dominated the corporate media, there has been little to no discussion of the root causes driving piracy. We speak with consultant and analyst Mohamed Abshir Waldo. In January, he wrote a paper titled “The Two Piracies in Somalia: Why the World Ignores the Other?”

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Bush's Misguided Offensive Strategies

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Ivan Eland - Dec. 16 (News Analysis) - Initially, the British military in Malaya and the U.S. military in Iraq used aggressive combat techniques to kill as many insurgents as possible. But in both cases, new military commanders — British Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Templer and Petraeus — realized that excessive violence on the part of an occupying power merely drives the occupied country’s population into the hands of the insurgents.

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Pirates of the 21st Century

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Global Pulse - Oct. 17 (News Analysis) - The stand-off between US forces and Somali pirates holding a ship full of weapons has received coverage around the world. There is sympathy for the Ukrainian crew members, and for the refugees of a long bloody war who are going hungry because the pirates steal UN food shipments. But there is also sympathy for the pirates themselves, who see piracy as their patriotic duty. SOURCES: Comedy Central, U.S.; CNN, U.S.; TV5, France; Russia Today, Russia; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; BBC, U.K.

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