Islamists warn Ethiopia to leave Somalia

[Canuck_Buck]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuters) -- Somalia's Islamist movement warned arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.

The Islamists, who dominate most of the south, say Ethiopia has at least 30,000 troops in Somalia near the provincial town of Baidoa, where an internationally recognized interim government is based.

Ethiopia, the West and the United Nations back the government, but its power does not extend beyond that town.

"Starting today, if the Ethiopians don't leave our land within seven days, we will attack them and force them to leave our country," Islamist defense chief Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad "Inda'ade" told reporters in Mogadishu.



Interesting how these militants always end up getting their hands on and using AK's....[8D]

...if fundamentalists gain control over the entire country they'll be knocking on Saudi Arabia's door next !

...maybe we should blow these guys up real good ?

[North Texan]

When I first read this, I thought it said Etothepii.

[burniegoeasily]

Lets see what theU.N. will dowhen the 7 days are up.

[kevin1]

Ethiopia and Somalia have been at each other's throats for nearly as long as both have existed , the only thing that's changed is the faces in the windows at the capitol buildings .

[Charlie P]

They fighting over the last chicken in the country?

[Aught Six]

The chicken that laid the Allah egg.

[Chantecler111]

Many people don't realize, but, most of the conflicts you see today have been going on for generations, it's just, the media overhypes so much, anymore.[:@]

[Charlie P]

They sure didn't overhype when a million people got killed in a hundred days, hardly herad a peep in the USA about it.