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Obama bans Somalia charcoal import |
2012-07-22 |
(Sh.M.Network)-- US President Barack ObamaThis is a teachable moment... Friday ordered a ban on charcoal imports from Somalia. The president said the trade generates "significant revenue" for al-Shabaab ... the successor to the Islamic Courts... , a Somalia-based cell of Al Qaeda, Xinhua reported. That's gall: conducting a scorched earth policy and then making money from the burnoff. The cut-thoat group, branded as a terrorist group by the US and several other countries, controls large swathes of southern Somalia. Since the outbreak of a civil war in 1991, there has been no central government control over most of Somalia. |
Posted by:Fred |
#3 Somalia is a poster child for failed states, to be sure, but just how lame does your economy have to be for burnt wood to be one of your major exports? |
Posted by: SteveS 2012-07-22 23:38 |
#2 Arclight. Drink up! Oh...wait... nevermind |
Posted by: Frank G 2012-07-22 09:06 |
#1 why would we import charcoal from somalia when kinsford makes tons of the shit daily! or is a different for of charcaol? |
Posted by: chris 2012-07-22 02:51 |