Soccer: A barometer of Al Shabab’s retreat in Somalia

Oct 05, 2012

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Al Shabab fighters chant God is Great in Mogadishu Stadium before losing control of the city a year ago

By James M. Dorsey

Soccer is one barometer of the increasingly successful drive to deprive militant Al Shabab fighters of their grip on large chunks of war-torn Somalia.

With the recent withdrawal of the Al Qaida-linked militants from the port city of Ki…

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