Michael Shank
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/ 11 January 2007

Political Islam is not yet dead in Somalia

The United States, fearing a new Taliban had come to power in Somalia, recently did what many expected it would do: invade Somalia. Not directly though. In the final weeks of 2006, Ethiopian forces that were trained, financed and outfitted by the US pounded Somalia’s capital and port cities with air attacks, routing the poorly equipped militias of the Islamic leadership.