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British Killer Linked to al-Qaeda

One of the two men arrested on suspicion of murdering a British soldier in London was arrested in Kenya in 2010 and arraigned in court before the Kenyan government deported him back to the United Kingdom. Michael Adebolajo was accused in Kenya of seeking training with al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia.

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The Somali Pirate Imposters

Somali pirates have kidnapped hundreds of people and cost millions in ransom payments. Jamal Osman of Channel 4 in Great Britain finds that journalists keen to interview them do not always get what they bargained for.

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Somali Artists on Comeback

As African forces continue to push Islamist militants belonging to the al-Shabaab network out of Somali cities, the country is slowly but steadily witnessing a rebirth of its art scene. More from JewishNewsOne.

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UK Eyes Khat House Ban

Banned across Europe and the United States, the drug “khat” remains in use in the United Kingdom, mostly by members of the expatriate Somali community. Now, British drug advisers are poised to recommend whether to make khat illegal. Growers in Kenya say that could have devastating economic consequences, and the Somalis are split over the proposed ban.

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Ayers Predicts US Collapse

Bill Ayers, co-founder of the radical Weather Underground and controversial associate of President Obama, forecasts the collapse of the United States, bankrupted by runaway spending on an out-of-control arms race. “We are entering into a new arms race that’s going to spend us into catastrophe,” he tells a reporter from RT, the global Russian TV network.

In the far-ranging interview, Ayers also extols Occupy Wall Street while castigating NATO as “a military dictatorship” that’s merely “a fig leaf for the United States.” Additionally, he asserts that the US represents a greater threat to global stability than Iran, saying “invasion, aggression and occupation” have been the motivating factors behind all American involvement in wars over the past half-century.

This perhaps explains Obama’s 2008 remark that he intended to campaign in all 57 states — with Iraq, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan and Libya all having been aggressively invaded, occupied, annexed and granted statehood over the past decade.

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