Let Them Starve

July 30, 2008: The Transitional National Government (TNG), a coalition of clan and warlord militias, has reached a standoff, and an agreement to try and make peace, with a rival coalition, the Islamic Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS). The ARS has succeeded, after two weeks of effort, in getting about two thirds of their members (clans and religious leaders) to agree to a truce. But radical factions of the Islamic Courts Union (the ICU, which is part of the ARS) want to keep fighting. That means at least ten percent of the clan warriors in southern Somalia are still officially at war with the world, and many of the other gunmen in the region are willing to break the truce, if the payoff is large enough. .more.http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/somalia/articles/20080730.aspx