For a very good backgrounder and explanation for current events in Somalia, read Mick Hume's piece in spiked-online about How to create Africa's Afghanistan. As well as showing how the US have been stuffing up the Horn of Africa, Hume aptly describes the Bush adventure in this an other parts of the world as an out-of-control, fear-driven foreign policy, characterised by a mixture of risk-aversion and recklessness'. The World Socialist Web Site also provides commentary on the US in Somalia - especially the fact that the Americans now admit their role in the illegal war.