Ethiopia intervenes in Somalia -- will the U.S. ever get involved there again?

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Huh. This didn’t make the headlines in the morning papers…

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It was on the BBC World Service

Sounds like an aircraft carrier sent aircraft to sort out a bunch in the deep South of Somalia - they claimed getting various Al Qaeda types which is a bit spurious.

I think that this one is being conducted on a ‘low profile’ basis, they’ll not proclaim victory until it is absolutely certain.

Probably Gitmo will get a new influx of prisoners.

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Well, apparently the U.S. airstrike didn’t kill any of the three al-Qaeda suspects it was aimed at (though it did kill 8-10 people, which is something).

Analysis/commentary from The Nation.

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Update: Another U.S. airstrike.

Ethiopia, meanwhile, has begun to withdraw its troops.