Thursday 29 June 2006

Has Somalia Fallen?

ABC News reports that Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, leader of the Muslim militias executive council, has claimed that his Jihadist forces have not only taken the south of Somalia, but now control the entire country.

If this is true, then Somalia is no longer a sideshow, but a beach head in East Africa and a potential new base from which the Jihadists can operate.

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