LANCING THE BOIL OF TERROR IN SOMALIA

Do Obama’s policies and the presence of Clintonistas in the administration foretell a return to the oblivious nineties?How do we not end up playing an endless game of whack-a-mole with vermin in human form?Read what Benny Avni has to say.
IT’S looking like the Obama administration may spurn a gift from the Bush team - a chance to lance the boil of Somalia.
“I’m very concerned now,” a Western diplomat based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, told me last week, as Ethiopian troops finished evacuating Somalia - leaving their neighbor to its own devices. The al Qaeda-affiliated local Islamist group, al Shabab, is quickly filling the vacuum.
Over the weekend, Somalia elected a new president - Sheik Sharif Ahmed, a former leader of the Islamic group that ruled the country until ousted by the Ethiopians, who has turned his back on the most extreme among his former Islamist allies.more..http://tmq2.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/lancing-the-boil-of-terror-in-somalia/