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On Monday, two tanks were dispatched to pick up Israeli soldiers wounded in the siege of Bint Jbeil, a town used by Hizballah Islamic militants to spray the northern corners of Israel with rocket fire. The town also has symbolic value to Hizballah; it was here in 2000 that Hizballah...
Then, in the past week Islamic forces surrounded Baidoa. The Islamic Courts Union says it will not attack the interim government, which is mostly secular in outlook, but the government?s closest ally, Ethiopia, is worried enough to be massing troops to take on the Islamic forces itself. The Islamists...
It wouldn?t be the first time the Ethiopians have taken on Somali Islamists. In late 1996, Ethiopian troops crossed the border into Somalia to take out a group called al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI), which had connections to Al-Qaeda and aimed to remake the lawless Horn of Africa...
Ethiopia fears that a powerful Islamic regime in Somalia (or any powerful regime in Somalia for that matter) will threaten its borders and may link up with anti-Addis Islamic groups in the Ethiopian area of Ogaden. With its superior troop numbers and military hardware (including a small number of...
There is still hope that the Islamists and transitional government will meet and come to some accommodation. ?The place to deal with differences is at the negotiating table,? Kofi Annan?s Special Representative for Somalia, Fran?ois Lons?ny Fall, said last week. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi...