Friday, July 21, 2006
OH NO, IT'S NOT A WORLD WAR ...
From the Beeb:Look -- it is a world war. And the loss of Somalia to the enemy is a big deal. I don't claim to have the answer about how to win the war -- but I know that the first step is acknowledging that it exists.A Somali Islamist leader has ordered a "holy war" to drive out Ethiopian troops, after they entered the country to protect the weak interim government. "I am calling on the Somali people to wage a holy war against Ethiopians in Somalia," said Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys of the Union of Islamic Courts.
Ethiopia denies that its forces are in the government's base of Baidoa, but a BBC reporter has seen them patrolling. The UIC took control of the capital, Mogadishu, last month. Since then it has consolidated its power over much of southern Somalia.
But Ethiopia is strongly opposed to the Islamists and has repeatedly warned that it will send its army into Somalia if the interim government is attacked.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 2:12 PM
