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Somalia
...and the conflict within. By: Jill Olchawa, jolchawa@students.depaul.edu
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In the battle of Jowhar, Islamists gained control of all of Southern Somalia with the exception of Baidoa, which holds the weak transitional government.
Peace keepers from Uganda and Sudan were planning to confront Islamic militia, however, the Islamists continued to reject foreign troops.
It is feared that Somalia as a country would suffer under strict Islamic rule because they are only accustomed to it in a moderate degree. Omar Jamal, director of the Somali Justice and Advocacy Center in St. Paul, a center for refugee Somalis, fears that they will attempt to develop a Tabliban-style government, lacking in freedoms of press, voting, and a justifiable legal system.
In response to whether or not the US entered, I found in my readings that US military forces became apparent when a gunship attacked the Islamic Extremists in Hayi ( located in southern Somalia) in January. The US was particularly concerned in capturing three possible extremists who were involved in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. This is not to say that these are the only individuals that the US is after because there is concern that extremists from the middle east have also entered Somalia.
Peace keepers from Uganda and Sudan were planning to confront Islamic militia, however, the Islamists continued to reject foreign troops.
It is feared that Somalia as a country would suffer under strict Islamic rule because they are only accustomed to it in a moderate degree. Omar Jamal, director of the Somali Justice and Advocacy Center in St. Paul, a center for refugee Somalis, fears that they will attempt to develop a Tabliban-style government, lacking in freedoms of press, voting, and a justifiable legal system.
In response to whether or not the US entered, I found in my readings that US military forces became apparent when a gunship attacked the Islamic Extremists in Hayi ( located in southern Somalia) in January. The US was particularly concerned in capturing three possible extremists who were involved in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. This is not to say that these are the only individuals that the US is after because there is concern that extremists from the middle east have also entered Somalia.