I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.
Other humanitarian agencies in southern Somalia face the enormous challenge of reaching drought victims in remote and insecure areas. We urge leaders and rival militia to set aside their differences and guarantee safe passage (of food aid) to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.
If low taxes were the way that people like me created wealth, then we'd be starting our companies in the Congo or Somalia or Afghanistan, but we're not. We come to places where there are lots and lots of customers.
He's gone after six weeks, but his story-line sends him off to Somalia and he will eventually come back . . . possibly to All Saints , ... We'll just have to wait and see.
There was a sense that there was nothing to learn from Somalia or Haiti or Bosnia.
These people ran on responsibility, but as soon as you scratch them, they go straight to blame. Now, you know, I didn't blame his father for Somalia when we had that awful day memorialized in ""Black Hawk Down."" I didn't do that.
Carrying a gun in Somalia is a natural thing. We are not going to change the culture of Somalis overnight.
Under normal conditions, Somalia is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and these are not normal conditions. It is a humanitarian crisis - it is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and a protection crisis.
We've always made clear that we felt that Somalia and the situation that existed there made it a potential haven for terrorists.
Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.