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...city. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said 1,000 people have been killed and 3,000 wounded. The United Nations says 35,000 refugees have crossed into Kenya to escape the fighting and has suspended aid to 2 million Somalis. It has warned of a bloodbath should Ethiopia try to occupy the capital, and humanitarian agencies have called for a ceasefire. But the U.S. has signaled its tacit support for the offensive, and while it is not providing overt military support, it has long trained Ethiopian troops and is likely to be passing them intelligence and aerial surveillance. Other...
...With that background, the world - and the U.S. in particular - was never going to forget Somalia easily. As the only officially Christian country in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has long been wary of Somalia's Islamic militias, which it describes as a "regional menace." (While it is officially Christian, Ethiopia has a population that is about half Muslim.) It shares that anti-Islamist position with the U.S., particularly since August 1998 when simultaneous suicide bombings destroyed the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, killing more than 200 people. The ringleaders were tracked to Somalia, and an Islamist...
...Ethiopia and the U.S. - whose close relationship has long included U.S. training for Ethiopian troops inside Ethiopia - back a transitional Somali government formed in October 2004 after talks between warlords and civilian leaders. Until now, that government has won international recognition, but never exercised real power and has been confined to the small southern Somali town of Baidoa. Both the U.S. and Ethiopia have backed the warlords as well. The exact nature of those relations have never been made public, but an indication of their value to the U.S. came in March 2003, when warlord Mohammed Dhere captured...
...torn streets of the capital. As Ethiopian troops advanced toward them, thousands of supporters of the Courts were reported to have staged rallies in Mogadishu. The Islamists are are also backed by Eritrea, the predominantly Muslim nation on the Red Sea coast that has been a historic enemy of Ethiopia. Eritrea has sent more than 2,000 troops to support the Council of Islamic Courts, according...
...Festivus for the rest of us,” as Frank proclaims, has led real-life Cabot to hold an annual celebration of the new holiday, this year on Sunday, December 10, which included a spread bountiful enough to include everyone, with food from Greece, India, Ethiopia, Thailand, and Mexico. Dinner was strictly Cabot-only; each student given a Festivus pin they had to wear in order be admitted (though the pins read 2005). Rachel M. Douglas ’09, who is also a Crimson editor, gorged on two servings of macaroni, four pieces of cornbread, two pieces...