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To: ASA Vet

There are parts of eastern Ethiopia, the Ogaden region, that have a large number of Somalis. They've been a cause of trouble before, and would be again, were a hostile and organized government rise in Somalia. Rather than wait for the Islamists to consolodate power, they simply took the fight to them first.


24 posted on 12/28/2006 6:46:08 AM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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To: Steel Wolf; SJackson
Well....they had declared a Jihad also....

Somali Islamists threaten holy war on Ethiopian troops

76 posted on 12/28/2006 10:10:07 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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