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Drownings and Lost Ransom Won't Deter Somali Pirates
The package at the end of a parachute shown in U.S. Navy photographs floating gently down onto the deck of the Sirius Star last week held the key to securing...
The Suffering Of Somalia
For Somalia, it was just another long weekend of mayhem. Shortly after midnight on Friday, Nov. 7, pirates seized a Danish cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden; on...
U.S. Kills Bin Laden's Man in Somalia
The U.S. missile strike that killed Somalia's most notorious Islamist insurgent, Aden Hashi Ayro, has dealt a major blow to al-Qaeda's allies operating in East...
Somalia Takes a Turn for the Worse
Even by the standards of Somalia, a country gripped by chaos for 17 years, it has been a horrible couple of weeks. First came the killings of two British Somali...
Crossfire's Victims in Somalia
The Somali village of Doble, bombed Monday by a U.S. missile that killed four civilians, is not a nice place. When I drove along Somalia's southern border with...
Remember Somalia?
On Oct. 3, 1993, a mob dragged the bodies of two U.S. soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The soldiers had been killed in an...
Somalia's War Flares Up Again
It was still possible, this summer, to see some hope in Somalia. The country was in dire need of some. The Ethiopian army, which invaded last December, had...
Somalia's al-Qaeda Link
Osama bin Laden has been urging Al-Qaeda followers to open up shop in Somalia for years, but there was always doubt about whether that call would resonate in a...
The Somalia Raid: Part of a Wider War
The U.S. military air strike on a suspected al-Qaeda target in Somalia reported Monday is but one of a number of U.S. operations there in recent days and weeks...
Al-Qaeda Leader Reported Killed in Somalia Was "Close to the Top"
If early reports are correct that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was killed in Tuesday's air strike in Somalia, al-Qaeda will have lost a key operative in East Africa ...
Saving Somalia
The center of Mogadishu is an awesome, ghostly monument to war. The streets are lined with rows of crumbling, freestanding Italianate façades sprayed with...
In Somalia, A Fragile Hold on Power
Mohammed Hussein Farah Aidid is still getting used to his transformation from warlord to Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister. But his assessment of the precarious...
A Dark Deja Vu in Somalia
To many Africans old enough to remember the Cold War, the bloody conflict currently unfolding in Somalia will be awfully familiar. Back before the Berlin Wall...
Somalia's Islamic Leaders Deny a Link to Terror
Since Somalia's Islamic leaders took control of the capital, Mogadishu, Monday after months of heavy fighting with warlords, the Bush Administration has made no...
Somalia's Desert Flower
Her story is the stuff of fiction: the daughter of Somali desert nomads, Waris ("desert flower" in Somali) Dirie fled her family when she was about 13 to escape...
Somalia: How the Troops See It
When he left for Mogadishu last December, Army SPC Glenn Follett imagined he would be going there as part of a salvation army: soldiers distributing food to...
Somalia: Anatomy of a Disaster
It seemed simple at first. There were people in need. America would help. But the mission to Somalia, which began with visions of charity, now puts forth images...
The Trouble with Good Intentions: In Feeding Somalia and Backing Yeltsin, America Discovers the Limits of Idealism .
Complexity theory holds that even the wildest disorder may eventually cohere into a pattern -- as when the teeming molecules of the young earth united in the...
How Somalia Crumbled
SOMALIA, A SICKLE-shaped expanse on the Horn of Africa, stretches across an unforgiving desert, arid and commanding. For centuries nomads have crossed and...
Somalia: Great Expectations
THE FIRST IMAGES CAST an antic light on Operation Restore Hope. As Navy SEALs waded ashore in the moonlight, their faces blackened with camouflage paint, their...
