MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA: "Jihadists attack Somalia: Al-Qaeda on the march; Barely supported by the West, Somalia's new government may buckle under the latest wave of jihadist assaults," The Economist, 23 May 2009.

"The Youth" (Shabab) now control the lower (southern) quartile of Somalia.

Frankly, if I'm Somaliland or Puntland (the latter is almost already its own country), I declare a divorce and dissolve the fake state called Somalia, because I've already seen the end of this movie.

Yet another data point that showed the world-spanning wisdom that was the Powell Doctrine in the 1990s.