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Somali women basketball team defeat The Jihadists: 1:0

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Jan 05, 2012
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Defying Al Shabab: Somali women basketball team in Qatar (Source: Bestsocialsubission.com)


By James Dorsey
The Somali national women’s basketball team hard fought defeat last week of Qatar in the Arab Games constituted more than just a badly needed morale boost for the country wracked by an Islamist insurgency: it put Somali women on par with soccer in st…

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