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| Africa Horn |
| US to launch diplomatic initiative towards Somali courts |
| 2006-06-14 |
| Having failed to defeat Islamist factions in Somalia through covert action - yet unwilling to see the lawless country on the Horn of Africa become a haven for Islamist extremists, including Al Qaeda - the US is preparing for a more diplomatic kind of intervention. On Thursday, the US will initiate a "Somalia contact group" of interested countries and organizations to begin deliberating on how the international community can help stabilize what experts consider to be a "failed state." For many Americans, Somalia is best remembered for the 1993 operation to capture a Somali warlord in Mogadishu that ended in the deaths of 18 US soldiers. That incident led to a hasty US pullout - and the 2001 movie "Black Hawk Down." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 "Abandoned Somalia more than a decade ago", i.e. during the mid-1990's andor Clinton's first term. GOOD FOR DUBYA & ADMIN - the Central African region is gener far weaker and unstable than any other region in the world IFF US-WESTERN CENTRIC OWG-GLOBAL ECON CAN STABILIZE-MODERNIZE CENTRAL AFRICA + AFRICA IN GENERAL, IT CAN HANDLE ANYTHING. The Somali Courts PC offer stability, order, and managed/planned progress - US-Western democratists have to offer the same plus better. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-14 05:03 |
| #1 sounds like an intel gathering mission to me. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-06-14 01:09 |