One of the claims critics of the war in Iraq like to make is that American involvement there is somehow prohibiting it from pursuing the war on terrorism on a wider scale. Yet even as U.S. troops continue to fight in Iraq, another front has opened in the war on terror. Somalia has become the latest battleground in the struggle between freedom and tyranny or, more specifically, the spread of radical Islam throughout the African continent.

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