Elizabeth Dickinson is assistant managing editor at Foreign Policy magazine. Until yesterday, most every policymaker who works on Somalia thought — or, at least, hoped — that the damage from the country's implosion would remain within its borders. After two coordinated bomb blasts exploded in Uganda's capital of Kampala Sunday, however, the picture has permanently changed. Before, Somalia's Islamist group al-Shabab, a self-proclaimed regional al Qaeda affiliate that controls large...
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