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By Robert Asketill Downing Street is prepared to lead an international offensive to crack down on the expanding al-Shabaab terror network in Somalia that has grown since the collapse of the Siad Barre government in 1991 mainly from pressures within Ethiopia. We saw Somalia under Said Barre becoming close to being a world power and of great interest to both the Soviet Union and the United States due to the country’s strategic location at the mouth of the Red Sea. After the Soviets broke with Barre in the late 1970s, he subsequently expelled all Soviet advisers, tore up his friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, and switched allegiance to the West. The United … Continue reading →