SOMALIA: THE NEW FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR.

Interpress Service | January 19, 2007 | Copyright

by Moyiga Nduru

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jan. 18, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Somalia has become the new front in the war on terror, joining the unpopular club of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The only difference is that President George W. Bush sent U.S. troops to get rid of the Taliban in Kabul and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. In Somalia, Bush's dirty work is being handled by Ethiopia.

Ethiopian troops, backing Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG), drove out a radical Islamic militia group from the capital Mogadishu on Dec. 28, 2006.

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