Does the World Care Enough About Somalia?

How many Americans know that their government is involved in a third military front on the 'war on terror'? When the US is not physically dropping bombs on suspected al Quaeda safe houses in Somalia they are busy blocking ceasefire resolutions in the UN Security Council in support of the occupying Ethiopian forces in Somalia. Meanwhile, back on the home front, in the past 3 months the mainstream media in America has spent very little time covering the slaughter in Mogadishu and when it does it tends to be very superficial (http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1211). Where is our BBC?


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