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US to launch diplomatic initiative towards Somali courts
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 2006-06-14 |
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