Washington Post: Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their recruitment of the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber and their potential role in the disappearance of more than a dozen Somali ...

Since the primary school re-opened in the New Year, we have noticed the absence of some of the adolescent boys with whom we had come to know. In particular, we began to miss Jamaal*, a fourteen year old boy whom we had spent some time with last fall. We were shocked to learn that he had been taken b...

Independent: British soldiers are engaged in "a surreal mini civil war" with growing numbers of home-grown jihadists who have travelled to Afghanistan to support the Taliban, senior Army officers have told The Independent. Interceptions of Taliban communications have shown that British jihadists –...

I Interviewed Romeo on video Sunday afternoon while we walked around the Oscar preparations at Hollywood and Highlands Blvds. pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic pic Romeo operates RomeoBashirFilms.com. He was born in Mogadishu around 1983 and adopted by SOS Childrens Villages. Luke: "W...

Yemeni super-sleuthing uncovered an international conspiracy in the Gulf of Aden - the US is the source of Somali piracy! The US in a devilish plot created the pirates as a power play against the Islamic Courts, officials announced. The pirates’ true identity was probably discovered because th...

Yemeni super-sleuthing uncovered an international conspiracy in the Gulf of Aden - the US is the source of Somali piracy! The US in a devilish plot created the pirates as a power play against the Islamic Courts, officials announced. The pirates’ true identity was probably discovered because th...

An Islamist insurgent holds his machine gun the stadium in Mogadishu, one of the bases vacated by Ethiopian troops January 14, 2009. Insurgents fired mortar bombs at Somalia's presidential palace on Wednesday, underlining fears of more bloodshed a day after Ethiopian troops supporting the government...

I have sadly failed to keep up my posting on Somalia (my last was, shockingly, November 2007). Predictably though, things have not gotten better. I'll let you read the whole sordid story for yourself in this NYT article, but the big story is that basically, the Transitional National Government can n...

Well, it certainly has been an eventful year in the life of one Clay Aiken. For the media and the fans, I suspect the biggest news of all was Clay revealing that he is gay. It was a subject that tended to overshadow every aspect of Clay's life even though it was something that he wanted, and had the...

NY Times: Somalia’s Islamist militants, long a bane of the country’s weakening government, are now officially fighting one another. On Sunday, a powerful, newly militarized Islamist group declared a “holy war� against other Islamist factions, and it seems to have the muscle to back up its in...