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Somalia: Al-Qaeda links claimed

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Somalia, International Relations, Politics, War & Conflict

Somaliland Diaspora writes that the Union of Islamic Courts (IUC) which took the Somali capital Mogadishu on June 4 is al-Qaeda-linked, and that the country could soon emerge as a worldwide haven for terrorists [1], along the same lines as the Taliban in Afghanistan.