tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549570844246420522.post3062383171223959929..comments2024-01-28T09:52:33.515-05:00Comments on al Sahwa: Mobile Banking in SomaliaPat Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13937507399915070637noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549570844246420522.post-30282629775325184262010-10-22T15:50:16.228-04:002010-10-22T15:50:16.228-04:00Here's another great (and inter-related) repor...Here's another great (and inter-related) <a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/09/one-cell-phone-at-a-time-count/" rel="nofollow">report written by some colleagues </a> related to an effort to bring mobile banking to Afghanistan.Pat Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13937507399915070637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549570844246420522.post-59634760700290967602010-10-20T16:19:01.605-04:002010-10-20T16:19:01.605-04:00Thanks for the comment. Statement looks like stan...Thanks for the comment. Statement looks like standard jihadi rhetoric, not unexpected. Looking forward to reading the recommended report this weekend.Josh McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13999710013022934333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4549570844246420522.post-56463127241353879602010-10-20T15:47:13.295-04:002010-10-20T15:47:13.295-04:00Hey Josh, here is the statement from Shabab in Eng...Hey Josh, here is the statement from Shabab in English and Arabic: http://jihadology.net/2010/10/19/new-statement-from-%e1%b8%a5arakat-al-shabab-al-mujahidin-regarding-the-closure-of-mobile-money-transfer-mmt-service-in-somalia/<br /><br />Also, Christopher Anzalone of Views from the Occident suggested reading Khalid M. Medani’s 2001 Middle East Report journal article “Financing Terrorism or Survival?: Informal Finance and State Collapse in Somalia, and the US War on Terrorism” for context on the situation.azelinhttp://jihadology.netnoreply@blogger.com