On any day of the week, it would be easy to point to a map and argue that more of Somalia’s territory is run by Shabaab and its allies control than by the Transitional Federal Government (despite rather optimistic claims to the contrary). So if Shabaab is the al Qaeda affiliate it claims to be, that means that Somalia is being de facto run by a terrorist group. Yikes.
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As the last decade of conflict has shown us, chaos – a category in which Somalia has no competitors – is perhaps the best predictor of 21st Century security ills. And from civil conflict to terrorism to refugees and the plight of disease, Somalia has it all.
(via Somali insurgents announce their allegiance to al Qaeda | FP Passport)
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