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Somalia is much on the minds of those fighting terrorism these days. On Feb. 1, Sheik Fuad Mohamed Shangole, a leader of an Islamist group known as al-Shabab (the Youth), which is fighting for control of the nation on the Horn of Africa, made a public declaration of allegiance to Osama bin Laden. If that summons memories of the old relationship between the Afghan Taliban and bin Laden, it should. Both Somalia and Afghanistan have been at war for more than a generation. Both wars have followed a similar progression: a toppling of the central government that was followed...
...Somalia's bigger and more Christian neighbor to the west. But many members of the TFG seem to effectively live in Nairobi. (Exceptions include President Sheik Sharif Ahmed and his Defense Minister, Yusuf Mohamed Siad, a veteran warlord who survived an assassination attempt by suicide bomb in Mogadishu on Feb. 15.) Despite the protection of 5,300 African Union (A.U.) troops - mainly Ugandans and Burundians - the TFG in reality controls little more than a few blocks of Mogadishu. "To defeat the Shabab," says the intelligence officer, "you need a functioning government. That's exactly what they lack." (See more about...
...filibuster, Jay Newton-Small on term limits, Michael Scherer on bipartisanship and Massimo Calabresi on investigating government. The series is being overseen by our Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy and Daniel Eisenberg, the executive editor of TIME.com So tune in to CNN for a discussion of Broken Government starting Feb. 22, and check out our series on TIME.com...
...handful of journalists who got a look at WP7 before the official Feb. 15 unveiling by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. And after spending some time with several core members of the Windows phone team, I walked away wondering if these vibrant people worked for the same company that gave us Vista. The team constantly referred to the WP7 project as a "gut check" because it was obvious that they had to do something different. And they...
...Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship," said U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Qatar on Feb. 15. It was the Obama Administration's bluntest statement yet against Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which many now believe to be the nation's true power center. Her comments came as the U.S. continues to push for new U.N. sanctions against Tehran, which recently announced it would enrich uranium to higher levels, reinforcing suspicions that it intends to produce nuclear weapons. To prevent such an outcome, Clinton said, the U.S. is focused on both "engagement and political pressure...