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TIME: Tell me about the war these past few weeks against Ethiopia...
...excellent. To defend your religion and your country - which is the same thing - was excellent. It wasn't our intention to fight Ethiopia; our purpose was to defend the people from the warlords. But it was excellent...
...said he was an al-Qaeda terrorist. But the Ethiopians said he was not, and they did not want him. And the man came back to Mogadishu and told us what had happened to him. That's why we know that we have to defend our religion against Ethiopia...
TIME: What do you make of [al-Qaeda leader] Ayman al-Zawahiri's call for Somalis to rise up against Ethiopia...
...outsourcing makes some sense. Bogged down in Iraq, America simply can't intervene as aggressively--militarily or even diplomatically--as we could a few years ago. But there are costs too. When America relies on other countries to do our bidding, they often end up doing their own instead. Ethiopia may capture some terrorists, but it is also making a play for dominance in Africa's horn. Somali Islamists have already vowed to wage guerrilla war against the country's new occupiers. If Ethiopia tries to make Somalia its puppet, it could spur a nationalist insurgency backed by archrival Eritrea...