Sentence examples for secular warlords from inspiring English sources
In 2006, the Islamic Courts Union militia defeated a coalition of U.S.-backed secular warlords in the capital, Mogadishu, began implementing Shariah law there and subsequently consolidated control across most of Somalia.
Radical Islamic militiamen battled an alliance of secular warlords for a second straight day for control of part of the capital, Mogadishu, leaving at least 28 people dead and 65 wounded.
The Bush administration will convene an international meeting in New York next week to discuss strategy on Somalia, where secular warlords supported by the United States appear to have been ousted by Islamist militias.
Businessmen, clan elders and moderate religious leaders shuttled between secular warlords and Islamic extremists in the capital, Mogadishu, trying to broker a cease-fire as the death toll from four days of fighting reached 96.
Civil strife could turn into sectarian war, with secular warlords presenting themselves as Sufi sheikhs in the fight against the Shabab.Alternatively, if Mr Ahmed is too indulgent as he seeks to buy off the Shabab, Somalia may get a caliphate by stealth.
It has also benefited from the decision of President George Bush's administration to isolate moderate Islamists such as Mr Ahmed and to embrace secular warlords with a history of terrorising civilians.In the past few years, Shabab numbers have risen from a few hundred fighters to several thousand.
Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, more secular local warlords have also emerged, each fighting on his own timetable.
His ministers are cobbled together from Islamists, secular nationalists, grizzled warlords and white-collar émigrés.
Many other ruling powers in history (from feudal warlords to secular totalitarian regimes) have had a more obvious stake in violence and confrontation than capitalism has.
It has emerged that the Bush administration bankrolled the warlords, who are secular, to gain access to al-Qaida suspects and block the rise of the Islamic militia.
In the West Bank and Gaza, a contest is under way between warlords and democrats, between Islamists and secular leaders, between those who would destroy Israel and those who would live beside it, between enclaves like Jenin and Gaza and the very idea of a unified national state.
