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Horn of Africa May Be Next Terror Front

Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:35:15 AM
By CHRIS TOMLINSON

Militia from the Islamic Courts Union drive a machine gun mounted truck through Balad in this June 17, 2006 file picture some 40 kilometers north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Governments in the Horn of Africa have watched with concern as the Somali Transitional Federal Government they helped create in 2004 after two years of peace talks has been eclipsed by the Islamic Courts Union, led by an elderly cleric, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is committed to a nationalist, Islamic regime and allegedly has ties to Ethiopian rebel groups.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - From the Red Sea to Lake Victoria, the Horn of Africa is one of the few places in the world where, if careful, a traveler can move 1,400 miles across four countries without producing a passport or encountering a single government official.

These footpaths, back roads and rivers have been used for centuries by merchants and slave traders, explorers, smugglers and bandits. Rebels easily sneak around the central governments in the big cities.

So could any traveler. Even a terrorist.


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