The Kenyan Newspapers and sadly VOA are playing to unfounded and fabricated stories to discredit the thousands of Somali Kenyans who work sixteen hours a day to earn a living in lawful business enterprises.

To the Muslim extremists and their cronies, jihad is a narrowly defined license to fight their perceived enemies (including Muslims, as is the case in Somalia) even if that leads to atrocities against civilians.

While there are two equally nasty, criminal, inhuman and exploiting gangs of pirates in Somalia, only one of them is publicized by the western media: the Somali shipping pirates attacking merchant shipping in these sea lanes, where the illegal poachers are also actively operating.

However, the Ethiopians soon faced problems. “As soon as that was accomplished, the situation started to deteriorate and has pretty much I think deteriorated ever since simply because most Somalis find it untenable to have an Ethiopian occupying force, particularly in Mogadishu,� Shinn says.

Pause and ponder for a minute. The death toll since 1990 – from the outbreak of the civil war- exceeds 3 million and is still counting. The number of internally displaced persons, the cost of destruction of property and human suffering is profound and staggering.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's government and the international community must deal with Islamists to avoid a security crisis when Ethiopian troops withdraw later this month, a think-tank said on Tuesday.

Despite its serene appearance, this tiny community, 260 kilometers south of the provincial capital Galkayo, has the dubious distinction of being one of the most dangerous places on earth.

Exploring Somalia's fate under the Bush administration's war on terror, Matthew Blood argues that the US has simply taken an already brutalised people and brutalised them even more. With warlordism, criminality, and piracy ever increasing, the author ponders whether the marked anti-Western sentiment and greater radicalisation of Islamic authority in the country will lead to violent future backlash within locations in the West from disaffected Somalis.