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  • A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home.

    Home   Army   America  
    "Debate over using drones to monitor American cities". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. May 14, 2012.
  • Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

  • You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.

    Real   Idols   Somalia  
  • The United States has been essentially engaged in an ongoing war that most people date from 2001. That war has taken us to Afghanistan, to Iraq, in a lesser way to other countries - Libya, Somalia, Yemen.

    Country   War   Taken  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.

  • I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.

    Soldier   Troops   Way  
  • It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.

    Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.382, Knopf
  • I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

  • The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women’s freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that’s what I had to deal with in captivity.

  • Somalia is facing many problems, I don't even know where to start.

    Problem   Somalia   Knows  
  • In the current situation, it is very difficult for foreign NGOs to work in Somalia because it is so unstable and dangerous. I really hope that my country will one day rise out of this mess and reach the potential it has.

    Interview with Ryan Kohls, whatiwannaknow.com. January 27, 2012.
  • In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

    "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kircher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.
  • We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

    "Hawa Abdi" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.
  • Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

    Paris   Secret   Unions  
    Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books
  • The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

    "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.
  • I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.

    IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
  • It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.

    Children   Gun   Years  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they can afford to be less committed in Somalia, please - we can deal with it ourselves.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where he went to nursery school. His family left there in the midsixties and moved to the Congo. After that, it was Ethiopia, and then Somalia, all fine places in his opinion. 'Let's save Africa and the Middle East for when I decide to quit living,' I said.

  • It was not lost on Osama bin Laden that it only took 18 dead in Somalia for the Great Satan to pull out. It should not be lost on Americans that this is what the Democrats are again demanding we do in Iraq.

    Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.172, Crown Forum
  • You need the will to disarm the civilian population. If we can do it in Somalia, we can do it here.

    Gun   Population   Needs  
  • I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here, come here with an entitlement mentality, didn't like it, fled the scene because Republicans drove them out of the country in the last election, so they went over to Somalia and started pirating things. Because they have the attitude of entitlement just like a lot of American citizens do.

  • Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

    "The Osbournes". TV Series 2002–2005,
  • The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

    Book   Media   Iraq  
  • While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith (apostates) or have same-sex relationships. Sharia methods of execution, such as stoning, are particularly brutal and cruel - witness the stoning to death this week in Somalia of a 20-year-old woman divorcee who was accused of adultery. This is the fourth stoning of an adulterer in Somalia in the last year.

    Sex   Years   Law  
    "Just say no to sharia law" by Peter Tatchell, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2009.
  • Bin Laden was very keen to point out to me that his forces had fought the Americans in Somalia. He also wanted to talk about how many mullahs in Pakistan were putting up posters saying, "We follow bin Laden." He even produced a sort of Kodak set of snapshots of graffiti supporting him.

    Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.
  • The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

    Self   Long   Somalia  
    "The doctor undaunted by Somalia's insurgents" by Laila Ali, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2011.
  • African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

    People   Shooting   Way  
  • I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

    "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.
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