EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Somali President Abdinur Darman

14:35 | Dan Verton | Sep 14th, 2007 11:45am |

Somalia’s first freely-elected president talks about the war raging in his country, his views on the U.S.-led Global War on Terrorism, and how the Internet may help educate and unite his nation.

Darman is a U.S.-educated engineer who wants to deploy distance learning, Internet-enabled health care, and advanced border security technologies to help unite his people and bring peace and security back to the war-torn nation.

Among the challenges he is facing, one looms especially large: the U.S. and the U.N. do not recognize his government in Mogadishu.

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