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PREVIEW: #SOMALIA: #JIHADISTS: Conversation with colleague Caleb Weiss of FDD and the Bridgeway Foundation re: the unsolved tangle of Somalia after more than three decades of US participation in the endless warlord battles -- and the entry of other power

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: #SOMALIA: #JIHADISTS: Conversation with colleague Caleb Weiss of FDD and the Bridgeway Foundation re: the unsolved tangle of Somalia after more than three decades of US participation in the endless warlord battles -- and the entry of other powers. More tonight.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

0:29.0

This is John Batcher speaking to my colleague Caleb Wies of the Bridgeway Foundation and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

0:37.5

He's in Africa.

0:38.5

Speaking of prison breaks, one in the east of Africa and Somalia and Mogadishu, another in the west of Africa

0:46.8

Niezaire. The prison breaks are by jihadis. At the same time Caleb addresses how Somalia is faring after all these years

0:57.3

of outside intervention, the United States, Turkey, and other players are now on the scene.

1:05.0

Other players from the Middle East and from around the world.

1:09.0

However, what are they gaining, dealing with Al-Shabaab, the jihadist?

1:14.6

Caleb explains.

1:17.6

Summarizing it all in, it's a mess.

1:21.1

This is Caleb Weiss of the Bridgeway Foundation, Somalia from

1:25.0

from Blackhawk down in the early 90s, the George H.W. Bush

1:29.1

administration. Still with us, still unsolved, still tragedy, a failed state in the east of Africa.

1:38.0

More of this later tonight.

1:39.0

Yeah, I mean all of these states are doing this normally to fight against

1:43.6

stop Shabab. I think they're definitely on the same page for that angle.

1:49.6

I see. It's just with the political and clan rivalries inside Somalia, this training sometimes goes awry in that the clan conflict supersedes the shared desire to fight Shabab.

2:05.8

And this has been a recurring problem inside Somalia,

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