Ethiopia invades Somalia

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

And just who might that one person reading this thread be?

I have no idea.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

*waves back to the nice WMS*  Keep up the good work!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Alas, WMS being gone has meant that this hasn't gotten the attention it deserves.  Things have heated up of late in Mogadishu.  With Somalia's charming multiple sided strife seeing over 320,000 people flee Mogadishu and over 130 dead civilians resulting from recent fighting.  On one side the principals are the Islamists and the Hawiye clan and on the other they are the Ethiopians and the TFG.  The Ethiopians claim their opponents are primarily Hawiye and have attempted to negotiate several ceasefires, which likely indicates they want out of Somalia, but not as badly as Reid wants the U.S. out of Iraq.  However, the TFG is insisting that they are only fighting Islamist insurgents.  Both sides so far have been content to let the Uganda led and manned AMISOM force keep watch over the port and airport, with the fighting mainly confined to residential areas of the city.  The U.S. ambassador to Kenya and Somalia is insisting that it's not an insurgency, just people who are trying to start an insurgency, sort of like how Iraq doesn't have a civil war, just people trying to start one.

It's been bad enough to actually get some minor press coverage here in the States, but I haven't seen anything more detailed on TV than people are shooting at each other there.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Nothing much new today save that the total of confirmed dead is now over 200, with civilians suffering much worse than the fighters on either side.