P.& G. Sees the World as Its Client (New York Times)
With new leadership, the consumer products giant wants to start winning over new customers in places like Nigeria, India and Somalia.
Somalia : Fresh Fighting Kills Two Civilians in Mogadishu (AllAfrica.com)
Mogadishu At least two civilians have been killed after fresh fighting between the transitional Federal Government troops backing by AMISOM and the Islamist fighters broke out in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on Saturday.
How Somalia hostages were freed (The Courier Mail)
BUNDLED into the back of a black 4WD, Nigel Brennan and his friend Amanda Lindhout had little idea how close they were to freedom.
Did five Torontonians join jihad in Somalia? (Toronto Star)
They hung out at a Somali restaurant in “Little Mogadishu” in the northwest corner of the city, played basketball together, and worshipped at a North York mosque.
Arrests suggest U.S. Muslims, like those in Europe, can be radicalized abroad (Washington Post)
A spike in terrorism cases involving U.S. citizens is challenging long-held assumptions that Muslims in Europe are more susceptible to radicalization than their better-assimilated counterparts in the United States.
Bob Ainsworth ‘had two opportunities to save British yacht couple’ (Daily Telegraph)
Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, had two opportunities to order Royal Marines to intervene to rescue the British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates, it has been reported.
Senior al Qaeda plotter believed to be killed by drone strike (TVNZ)
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan is believed to have killed a senior al Qaeda leader responsible for plotting attacks beyond the Afghan-Pakistan region, a US counter-terrorism official said on Friday
Explosions shake UNDP HQ in Mogadishu (Press TV)
Hand grenade explosions have shaken the United Nations Development Program headquarters in Mogadishu, while the exchange of fire elsewhere in Somalia has claimed seven lives.
U.N. Experts Get Threats in Inquiry Into Somalia (International Herald Tribune)
Businessmen may be funneling aid to terrorist groups, and members of a panel investigating this possibility have received death threats.
Arrests fuel ‘homegrown’ fears (Washington Post)
Recent investigations suggest that U.S. Muslims, like those in Europe, can be radicalized abroad.
