"Al-Qaeda Affiliate, not Famine, is Responsible for Somalian Genocide"

"A U.S. humanitarian effort in 1993 with the U.N. to provide aid during an earlier draught resulted in 18 troops killed by Osama bin Laden backed militants, documented in the movie Blackhawk Down. In 1998, Osama bin Laden’s Somalia-based operation blew up U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 230 people. The U.S. found and killed a top al Qaeda operative behind the bombings in Somalia in 2009, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. Al-Shabab took over most of the southern part of Somalia in 2005, and by 2008 was colluding with Somali pirates to steal ransoms and bounties. The country is now in shambles, with infrastructure like schools and landline phones mostly wiped out."