Daily Archives: January 31, 2012
More to Somalia than pirates, famine and al-Shabab
The next book in the African Arguments series is Getting Somalia Wrong by BBC journalist Mary Harper. It is a complex account of a country too often stereotyped by one or two of its most notorious characteristics – recently these being the Islamist insurgency of Al-Shabaab, piracy off its Indian Ocean coast and terrible famine. Harper’s book has grown […]
Busy Day For Yemen
U.S. airstrikes targeting leaders from Yemen’s active al-Qaida branch killed four suspected militants, including a man suspected of involvement in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, officials said Tuesday. Missiles struck a school and a car late Monday in the southern Abyan province, Yemeni security and military officials said. Large swaths of the province […]
More reasons to dump Facebook - ABC News: Facebook update to unearth old posts
Reblogged from social justice and sustainable living – new media : Facebook update to unearth old posts The latest upgrade to Facebook has technology experts warning people to clean up their online history or risk having embarrassing photos and status updates re-surface. Facebook will not say exactly when, but sometime in the next few weeks […]
Panetta Has to Think of a Number for US Military Ops. Iran Still Has No Nukes
Iran could build and set off a nuclear weapon within two to three years if it decided to pursue one, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a television interview aired Sunday. [my emphasis] “The consensus is that, if they decided to do it, it would probably take them about a year to be able to […]
