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Happy New Year
Tweet Share on Facebook January 2, 2007 CommentTwo happy developments late last year.
The first, and surely the more important, is the apparent rapid success of the Ethiopian Army in defeating the al Qaeda-linked Council of Islamic Courts front that seemed to be in control of much of Somalia, including the capital of Mogadishu. Now the Ethiopians have taken not only Mogadishu but, reportedly, the final Islamic Courts stronghold of Kisimayo, in the southwest part of the country.

