Ethiopia vows to 'crush' Somali Islamists amid incursion reports

by Abraham Fisseha
22 minutes ago

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia has vowed to "crush" the powerful Somali Islamic courts, a day after they threatened a holy war against Addis Ababa, which they accuse of sending troops to protect Somalia's weak interim government.

The warning came Saturday as witnesses reported an incursion of Ethiopian troops into a second Somali town close to Baidoa, the seat of the country's toothless government, ostensibly to protect it from any advance by the Islamists.

Residents in the town of Wajid, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the Somali-Ethiopian border, said about 250 heavily-armed Ethiopian soldiers had arrived there early in the day.

"Ethiopian troops numbering about 250 arrived in Wajid town in Bakol region," said local resident Ahmed Issa.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060722/wl_afp/somaliaunrestethiopia_060722113557

or is it OK when it is african against african.

i smell double standard.

Some on DU actually thought it was a good thing...!