The Next Taliban?

Published on July 18, 2006

The good news, we guess, is that the old “domino theory” of the Cold War is really dead. The bad news is that as a result, the press is mostly ignoring the transformation of Somalia into a Taliban state. The press paid attention when Islamic forces routed the warlords of Mogadishu, who’d been backed by […]

The good news, we guess, is that the old “domino theory” of the Cold War is really dead. The bad news is that as a result, the press is mostly ignoring the transformation of Somalia into a Taliban state. The press paid attention when Islamic forces routed the warlords of Mogadishu, who’d been backed by the U.S., but since then there’s been little news — but much happening. Power and Interest News Report sifts the struggle between two Islamist factions — one moderate, one militant — and a weak coalition of warlord. Also in the mix, two regional powers: the brutal, ostensibly Islamic regime of Sudan, and the anxious, ethnically Christian government of Ethiopia.

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