Night Falls on Mogadishu
An absolutely superb article about the status of Al Qaeda in Somalia is provided by Dan Darling from The Daily Standard. Mr. Darling sums up the threat below:
The effect of the ICU's rule over Mogadishu is already coming into focus. From closing down makeshift cinemas, to preventing Somalis from viewing the World Cup, to making the celebration of New Year's a capital offense, the closer one looks at this regime the more it begins to resemble the Islamist theocracy that once dominated Afghanistan. While some observers have compared the rise of the ICU in Somalia to the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan, a better analogy might be the early rise of the Taliban in Kandahar in 1994, when the movement was still in the process of consolidating its power. At that time, the West chose to ignore the threat, a decision that had tragic consequences for so many. Whether or not we repeat that same mistake, only time will tell.Read it in full here.
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