Subject:

Mogadishu

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Navy 'Bull Frog' Eric Olson, Tacoma-born Head of U.S. SpecOps, Oversaw Bin Laden Takedown

    Olson​The U.S. plot to kill Osama bin Laden was successfully brought off thanks in part to Navy Adm. Eric Olson, a Tacoma native and son of a former city council member there. The 59-year-old Stadium High grad and now leader of the U.S. Special Operations Command was at the side of CIA Direct ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Scott Peterson

    Olson​The U.S. plot to kill Osama bin Laden was successfully brought off thanks in part to Navy Adm. Eric Olson, a Tacoma native and son of a former city council member there. The 59-year-old Stadium High grad and now leader of the U.S. Special Operations Command was at the side of CIA Direct ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2009

    A Mystery of Violence

    As the FBI investigates the possibility of a terrorism “recruitment network” in Seattle, the local Somali community struggles to understand why young men would return to a country they never knew.

  • Music

    March 4, 2009

    K’naan: The Dusty Foot Troubadour

    Serving hip-hop on a global platter.

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    New Music: K'naan Releases Troubadour -- Performs in Seattle March 10

    K'naan Troubadour (A&M Octone) The UN projects that in 2009, a third of Somalia's total population will be dependent on humanitarian aid--this, in a country that has no central government, where the most viable economic vocation is piracy. Enter K'naan. Having fled civil war in Mogadishu in 199 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    K'Naan, Gabriel Teodros, DJ Daps1 and Yze at Neumos March 10

    Here's one of the biggest hip-hop shows that I'm looking forward to in the near future. Somalian MC, K'naan, who grew up in Mogadishu and moved to Toronto as a teenager, has always been on my radar of rap artists to watch from Canada with a more powerful message than those here in the U.S. I didn't ... More >>

  • News

    February 28, 2007

    Dubious Diplomacy

    Slade Gorton says that 28-year-old Seattle grocer Koshin Mohamed is an official Somali representative to the U.S. But the State Department says otherwise.

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    An Anti-War Movement of One

    A conservative breaks ranks with both the right and left to oppose an Iraq attack.

  • News

    March 27, 2002

    Ismail calls

    A conservative breaks ranks with both the right and left to oppose an Iraq attack.

  • News

    March 20, 2002

    Snatched

    The INS gave Fuad Hassan Ismail a one-way ticket to Somalia. Business as usual, or one more sign that this agency is out of control?

  • News

    March 20, 2002

    From wedding bells to jail cells

    A love story with a very unhappy ending.

  • Film

    January 16, 2002

    The lost patrol

    Nine years later, victory is claimed from defeat.

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