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• “Twenty-nine years later, Barre's horrible, though perhaps unintentional, slur is being repeated by the faculty in the department of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, through their defence of the department's right to hire Hassan Diab to teach a summer course.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “The locals claimed that the United Nations helped warlords who had fled the country after Said Barre's regime fell, enabling them to return and putting them in charge of administering regional civil infrastructure.”

  The Huffington Post: Rev. Larry Hollon: Why Somalia Matters

• “The good doctor borrowed a private jet and was received with high expectations at Barre's Presidential Palace in Mogadishu.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard Walden: Somalia: Henry Kissinger and Me, Circa 1980

• “Somalia has not had a functioning central government since 1991, when the collapse of Siad Barre's government plunged the Horn of Africa nation into civil war.”

  The Washington Post: At least 50 African Union peacekeepers dead in Somalia clashes

• “War has gripped Somalia since 1991, when the collapse of President Mohamed Siad Barre's regime plunged the country into lawlessness and clan fighting.”

  The Washington Post: For Somalis caught between Islamists and weak government, fleeing is only option

• “That inaction is particularly remarkable given that Barre's regime started Somalia on a downward spiral from which it has yet to recover.”

  The Huffington Post: Where is the Justice for Somalia?

• “Shorn of this central allegation, it is no wonder that, as Barre's lawyers explained in a court filing in connection with his habeas corpus petition, the allegations against him have "varied dramatically.”

  Andy Worthington: The Stories of the Two Somalis Freed From Guantanamo

• “Nevertheless, the authorities at Guantánamo -- operating in a bubble of terror-related allegations that largely bore no relation to the realities of the outside world -- had no time for Barre's protestations of innocence.”

  Andy Worthington: The Stories of the Two Somalis Freed From Guantanamo

• “Whether it was Siad Barre's Somalia with it's claims in the Ogaden or current Saudi economic intrusion, Ethiopia is in a fight for its cultural future.”

  Sound Politics: Discussion of Ethiopia's Intervention in Somalia a Bad Precursor to More Iraq Debate

• “Since Barre's ouster, several well-armed clan-based factions have been in an almost constant state of low-level war, hindering effective monitoring of the embargo.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

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