wednesday may 1

we just did our map quiz for the class and we got 10/10 on both maps. it took us a few tries for the 2nd map but we got it. Plus now we are going to finish with other people's presentations. bruns fell outta his chair becasue his wheel fell off and i couldnt stop laughing for a bit

somalia- closest country is ethiopia, it happened cause land occupied were put together to make somalia, socialist gov, major general muhammed led gov siege and then in 1991 rebels defeated barre and then chaos and anarchy followed.

somali national gov gained control of most of the north, there was fighting between rival groups b/c they wanted control for food and weapons

1992 peple relized there was a problem so then us sent troops for peacekeeping and then they left in 1994 and united kingdom in 1995 after suffering a lot of casualities, americans were big part of trying to get aid.

shabaab was a terrorist group that was in control

if us and un didnt go in their would have been a lot more deaths

black hawk down is a movie and 123 soldiers were after 2 lieutents and they were met by somalia with firepower, somalia shot down 2 black hawk airplanes and so they did an operation to recover the helicopters and crew

piracy is a big deal and there shipments and shipping costs have gone up and there were  151 attacks in 2011, pirates believe they are protecting the waters

14 attemps at gov, it currently has no one fully in control , hassan mohamud is trying to become leader and gov has little control, dominated by shabaab a terrorist group.

federal gov isin charge now as 2012.

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