mogadishu

The Battle of Mogadishu (AKA Black Hawk Down) was 1993 and the losses on both sides were dramatically more.

The southwestern provinces such as Bay and Bakool have recently either declared autonomy from Mogadishu or have started to discuss it.

You won't see the corpses of dead Americans being dragged through Mogadishu with drones.

It would be easier to stick to services like running an airport (eg Mogadishu kept operating...), water, hospitals, power, etc.

Well, barring somewhere really fucked like Mogadishu or something.

Right now, there at least three different safe houses in the outskirts of Mogadishu with several terabyte hard drives rigged to blow up if their demands aren't met.

Here are some people in Mogadishu selling food.

- the last video on page has some real photos with him during his travels, including the one in Somalia (mogadishu).

Even in Greece, the Mogadishu scenario would be the good outcome, not that EU human rights laws and what not would ever let it go that bad, but then at least people could be deported.

Which side of the argument you come down on depends on whether you see the Internet as basically a nice London suburb with a few bad eggs in it, or a violent amalgam of Feudal Middle England and Mogadishu on a bad day.

How do we classify "civilians" that may not be actively waging war but are part of the support network either through willful ignorance or by becoming human shields (like in Mogadishu, etc.)?

The decades of bloodshed come from a minority group of western-educated democracy lovers and psychopath "warlords" who have been waging war on the Mogadishu area for the prize of UN recognition and the trough of foreign aid money it brings.

Maybe you will see things in a different light and while a cat-photo sharing app worth $50 million may not reach people in Mogadishu (who really don't give a shit about an "angry" cat), your health/water-finder/medicine app will reach the NPO workers who indirectly assist millions.

"Two years ago, BBC World Service and Time Magazine were among the outlets buzzing over the unexpected appearance of a tourist in war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia — the first recreational visitor in more than two decades." Quite the claim with no way to verify this.

What if the result winds up looking less like New York or Hong Kong and more like Mogadishu?

You don't have to go far to find Canadians who view Detroit as a North American Mogadishu.

Mogadishu/Somalia isn't even that destabilising to East Africa which mostly has more or less functional states.