SOMALIA: AU Still Debates Troop Deployment
The Online Monster and Critics reports:
A decision whether to approve a peacekeeping force for Somalia still looms as African leaders prepare for the second and last day of the annual African Union summit in the Gambian capital Banjul. It was not immediately clear if a purported recording of Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden warning against deployment of foreign troops to Somalia would be discussed. The recording warns Somalis against negotiations with the weak transitional authority. Hardline Islamists, thought by the United States of having links to bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network, currently control most of southern Somalia.
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