Somalia

Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the new leader of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, wants the Ethiopian forces to be “expelled from the country.” The UN envoy called on the Security Council to take “bold, decisive and fast action.” Somali pirates kidnapped 20 Filipinos aboard a Japanese-owned freighter.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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