Somalia

I have asked recognized experts on Middle East and terrorism to comment on the current situation in Yemen, which I covered last week, and to share their views regarding the U.S. policy in that country and the nations surrounding it.

Dr. Ariel Cohen Cohen, a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC:

Is the future of international relations being written in the waters off the coast of Somalia?

Last month a team of US Special Forces soldiers launched a helicopter-based attack on a convoy rumbling across southern Somalia. The action was quick, and a few minutes later the US troops were back aboard their choppers with the body of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was the suspected mastermind of al-Qaeda’s 1998 attack against the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya which left more than 200 dead, as well as a commander in Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic movement.