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So the extremists control the show, on both sides of the Green Line.
Now, in the heart of a city where Islamist extremists control entire neighbourhoods, the 14-storey cross is nearly complete.
Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land the extremists control.
Vast swaths of the three states are under the extremists' control, which prompted President Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in all three last year.
The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, said this week that extremists control two local government areas near the border with Niger, and are in partial control of another.
In most ways the afflicted region epitomises the collapse of authority: extremists control roads and markets; the government is powerless outside the capital; outsiders provide what little assistance exists.But not all failed or fragile states look like Somalia.
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China, India, Iran and Russia might cooperate with Washington simply because there's no motivation greater than the nightmare of extremists controlling Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
The neighborhood has become a battleground over the past several months, with Sunni Arab extremists controlling many of its streets and killing people who refuse to help them.
Islamic extremists controlled large pieces of territory, with some so ferocious in their views that they did not even allow the baking of bread.
McCarthy's State Department canard finds an eerie echo in Rep. King's similarly baseless 2004 claim, made on Sean Hannity's radio show, that Islamic extremists controlled 80-85% of the mosques in the United States.
Even though it may slowly be freed from extremist control, Mogadishu will only ever be the capital in name.
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