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WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Twisted Ethiopia’s Arm to Invade Somalia
In what appears to be another U.S. proxy war.
By Rob Prince | December 8, 2010



By mid 2007, the 50,000 Ethiopian troops that invaded Somalia in late 2006 found themselves increasingly bogged down, facing much fiercer resistance than they had bargained for as Somalis of all stripes temporarily put aside their differences to stand together against the outside invader.

As the military incursion turned increasingly sour, then US Under Secretary of State for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, who taught at the University of Denver’s Korbel School of International Studies in the 1990s, insisted that, prior to the invasion, the United States had counseled caution and that Washington had warned Ethiopia not to use military force against Somalia. Frazer was a close collaborator with former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, for whom there also is a strong University of Denver connection. Frazer certainly tried to distance the United States from responsibility for the Ethiopian invasion in a number of interviews she gave to the media at the time.

But one of the released WikiLeaks cables, suggests a different picture, one that implicates Frazer in pressing Ethiopia’s President Meles Zenawi to invade its neighbor. The content of the cable is being widely discussed in the African media. It exposes a secret deal cut between the United States and Ethiopia to invade Somalia.

The 2006 war in Somalia did not go well either for the United States or Ethiopia. Recently a State Department spokesperson, Donald Yamamoto, admitted that the whole idea was “a big mistake,” obliquely admitting U.S. responsibility for the invasion. It resulted in 20,000 deaths and according to some reports, left up to 2 million Somalis homeless. The 50,000 Ethiopian invasion force, which had expected a cake walk, instead ran into a buzz saw of Somali resistance, got bogged down and soon withdrew with its tail between its legs. The political result of the invasion was predictable: the generally more moderate Union of Islamic Courts was weakened, but it was soon replaced in Somalia by far more radical and militant Islamic groups with a more openly anti-American agenda.

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Fiyameta wrote: ↑

14 Jul 2023, 12:39

Ever wonder why the agame who invaded Somalia and caused 20,000 deaths and displaced 2 million Somalis, have no shame using nicknames like "Somaliman" Agame are evil to the core!

And she use google translation to appear a “smaliman”

AgameWoch are good at fooling nobody but themselves.

Terrorist agame gang raped thousands of underage Muslim girls in Somalia, then killed the victims and gauged the eyes of family members who tried to defend the girls. I think 1.5 million dead agame is a small price to pay for what these evil people did to the Somali people.

Here's the news article: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/worl ... 10349.html