from Al Jazeera
Hussein Shobokshi, a Saudi columnist, said the US, which has been worried about al-Qaeda activity in Yemen, "did not pay attention to what was happening in Yemen or at the same time what's developing in Somalia...the region as a whole is looking at a mushrooming cancer in both these countries, and things are slowly but surely getting out of hand."
Shobokshi's usage of the verb "to mushroom" is correct, but it is confusing to think of cancer as fungal, and possibly also misleading to think of Shia militiamen as forming a geopolitical "cancer."
It's probably not helpful to suggest that if this portobello metastasizes, then Gazprom could control the world's most valuable oil supplies. Then, things would definitely be "out of hand."
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