[Shawndell Green]

"Addicts - mostly men - will spend all their money on the drug, while their children have nothing to eat.

And khat is also blamed for the small plastic bags which litter the city."

Yep, those two problems are equal in the severity. How awful that there is litter in the streets and starving kids are not conducive to one's sense of the aesthetic either.

[MaineVoter2002]

A few somalis in Maine had been arrested for possession of Khat. The liberal lawyers got them off on the basis that "they did not know it was illegal in the USA"

On the subject of the Somalis here in the US. I have learnt that many of the Somalis here in the US did NOT come from Somalia (directly). As you know, the US had agreed to accept a certain number of Somali refugees and Europe also had agreed to accept their share of Somali refugees. Well, I learnt that not only is our share of Somali refugees here but many of Europe's share as well. They came here from France, UK, Italy...etc but they come here under telling our government that they came directly from Somalia.
Back in 2001 I wrote Senator Snowe about this. Never received a reply.
The Somali that fled to Italy from the UK after the London bombings...it was found out that he was not from the UK but from Italy.