If I were a betting man, I'll give you odds that the U.S. will sit out this brewing war. Let the U.N. or the Arab league have a crack at keeping this one from becoming an Arab/Christian catastrophe. The article implies that Ethiopia quickly will wipe up the Somali Islamist forces if it comes to war, unless a massive influx of well-equipped Arab fighters arrive from elsewhere.
Perhaps the Saudis would like to fix this one.
Such wonderful folks, these Islamists:
"All the talk of slaughtering Ethiopian invaders and their American sponsors, though, seems to have brought out a harsher side of the Islamic administration. Nearly every day, rings of people gather on Mogadishu’s streets to watch lashings, and the crowds cheer as leather whips cut canals into flesh. One Islamic leader in a town north of Mogadishu recently issued an edict threatening that anyone who did not pray five times a day would be beheaded.
“It’s black and white,” said the leader, Hussein Barre Rage. “The Koran says people must pray.”
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