Word: ethiopian
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They're dragging bodies through the streets of Mogadishu once again. This time the dead men--paraded before a camera phone in November--were not American soldiers but Ethiopian ones. Yet the episode was a reminder of how dangerous Somalia has become. Last December the forces of Ethiopia, a prime U.S. ally in Africa and a major recipient of U.S. military aid, invaded Somalia to depose a radical Islamist regime, and Ethiopia received significant U.S. logistical support as the operation unfolded. But today the East African nation--indeed, the whole Horn of Africa--is again in chaos. Ethiopia and Eritrea...
...bombing on two occasions." The first attack was on the night of Jan. 7, after U.S. special-operations forces picked up intelligence that Fazul and Aden Hashi Ayro--a notorious and ruthless Afghanistan-trained militia leader--were riding in a convoy close to Ras Kamboni. According to an Ethiopian officer who was present, a local herdsman was paid to walk past the convoy and drop an electronic beam, which guided the air strike. Ayro was wounded. Initial media reports said Fazul was dead, but U.S. officials now believe he was not in the convoy after all and is currently hiding...
...leaders, took over Mogadishu and imposed a form of law and order on Somalia, which had just gone through 15 years of civil war. But a few months later, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of the UIC, which had absorbed al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, declared a jihad on Ethiopian troops, who were regularly crossing into Somalia. "That was unacceptable," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told TIME this year. The Ethiopians invaded Somalia on Dec. 24, and the advance was a quick and bloody triumph. Meles' forces killed thousands of UIC fighters within days, captured Mogadishu and installed the internationally...
...known who died there. But at some point in the operation, the U.S. got lucky. According to a Pentagon official, the U.S. and Ethiopians learned some months after the strike that al-Sudani, the bombmaker for the 1998 embassy attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, had been killed. "Al-Sudani is dead, done for, six feet under and pushing up daisies," says the official. Witnesses say during operations in the south, Ethiopian helicopters and planes hit vehicles up and down the border, unwittingly killing al-Sudani. According to local villagers, his body now lies in an unmarked grave among the thorn...
...roughly the same time. But they were substantial, with a significant naval presence offshore, special-operations forces and missions flown from nearby airfields, all designed to degrade the capacity of local Islamist militants. In early January, says Abdirashid Mohamed Hiddig, a member of the Somalian parliament, the Ethiopians asked him to fly to Kulbio, Somalia. There, he says, U.S. plainclothes personnel and military personnel were sifting prisoners, looking for al-Qaeda. Human Rights Watch, a humanitarian organization based in New York City, says Ethiopian and Kenyan security forces detained hundreds of suspects without charge, though most were released...