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internet marketing MINNEAPOLIS – Even the federal prosecutors who charged a 25-year-old Minnesota man with aiding terrorists admit he didn’t know he was signing up for jihad when he accepted a free trip to Somalia. Abdifatah Yusuf Isse told investigators he grabbed the free ticket to see his grandmother in his homeland. But...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Navy is warning of increased pirate activity off the coast of Somalia due to the advent of weather more favorable to the sea-borne criminals. The Navy says high seas in the Gulf of Aden had resulted in fewer attacks in… from WN.com – World News
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — With a show of force, Somali government troops on Sunday took full control of the strategic western town where the national security minister was killed last month. Hundreds of heavily armed government soldiers rolled into the town of Belet Weyne in 18 pickups with machine-guns just before dawn, resident Abshir Haji...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia—With… from WN.com – World News
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ANKARA, Turkey â?? Turkish commandos captured five pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday as part of an international mission to curb piracy off the coast of Somalia, the military said. Navy commandos aboard the Turkish frigate TCG Gediz, part of a NATO patrol, raided the skiff after a request to block it...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Islamist insurgents clashed with government forces and African Union peacekeepers in southern Mogadishu, killing… from WN.com – World News
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ABC News Africa correspondent, Andrew Geoghegan Andrew Geoghegan has travelled extensively through Africa since he was appointed the ABC’s Johannesburg-based correspondent in October 2006. In that time he’s covered the continent’s major stories. He’s closely followed the crisis in Zimbabwe and has worked undercover in the country on many occasions, despite being banned from...
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UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all countries Thursday to provide urgent military support to Somalia’s embattled transitional government, warning that its survival is at stake. Two allied Islamist insurgent groups — al-Shabab and the Islamic Party — launched an offensive after the return of an exiled insurgent leader in April that...
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