Somalia: The Next New Haven for Terrorists?

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Gayle Smith discusses recent events in Somalia (including Ethiopian troops crossing the border and Monday's attack by US forces on Al Queda operatives) and the threats and challenges that Somalia presents if it continues as a weak and failing state.

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• somalia
• mogadishu
• seeprogress
• al
• queda
• military
• ethiopia
• africa
• bush

[yaaasiiin]

you i hatte america fuck you this problem i your is somalia

we dont care and we are every dont forget that

[javierbiz]

this bitch is politicly dicey, ignore this bridgette nielson wanna be. shut the fuck up bitch your an idiot

[GeckoWiz]

Some ignorant Americans are proud to be ignorant. Ignorance is in their code of law and are ignorant or how they perceive non-ignorant countries the media. Facts about non-ignorant countries are based on their ignorance. We cannot be controlled by ignorant people who base the non ignorant countries as ignorant. Ignorance can be best seen in the ever presence of biased News Networks to "spoon feed" people into "understanding" the ignorance of the US government. Ignorance plays key in todays age.

[AfriSynergy]

Most of what you have presented in your video has been proven wrong. Today, we have the former leader of the UIC as president of Somalia. Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia was using Bush's terrorism game to collect $500 million from the US and unknown amounts from the British.

The Bush Administration was a proven failure in Somalia. Ethiopian troops are out.

[johngreg44]

so you wanna bomb somalia? i dont like those stupid "tink tank" bunch of idiots, instead they help people , they wanna kill them!!! US spends billions of dollars on weapons and export them to world, and then people cant find food, so guess u stupid tink tank, starving people need food not bombs, oh gosh am sick of those stupid who dont worry about their food and think about nothing!!! go figure

[dukedope09]

LOOOL WOEE SHE SHOULD SUCK COCK

[govinda8900]

fuck you. you are the real terrorists if we are telling the truth. why didn't you call the warlords terrorist? you are calling theislamic courts terrorist coz they bringed back peace to our country? or is that coz they are "ISLAM"? i think u are seying this coz u relly hate the name ISLAM or u want a revenge for BLACK HAUk down

[raaxeeye07]

god save somalia

[Adenmussa]

HOLLY CRAP!

[anwpep]

MJG01 if u are talking to me than this is for u if not just ignor it and i apoligize.. say whaaaat?? who u calling bitch? do u know me or what? be happy that i restregnht my IMAAN(inner good "thing") or els u won't be having anything but swearwords.. i'm muslim to and somali(and a DAMN proud one thank u very much) and where did i say anything about christians???and the oil thing NOT A DREAM. U my friend NEED TO WAKE UP.. callignme for a bitch?? hehe who the hell do u think u are??AGAIN..