There was a light in the painting-room window, he said, tremulously, and a head with black sticky-up hair all round. Then it went away.

Most cruelly, the immediate security interests of the United States and the states surrounding Somalia are now to keep it a failed state, to prevent Islamists from consolidating even a weak state centered on Mogadishu. The leader of the victorious faction, one Aden Hashi 'Ayro, is said to be a veteran of Afghanistan; he knows well what a small sanctuary in a backward corner of the globe can mean for al Qaeda.

Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914.

To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.