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Article: ETHIOPIA: ETHIOPIA COMPELLED TO DEFEND ITSELF IN WAKE OF FULL-BLOWN OFFENSIVE BY SOMALIA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 28, 2006
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The government of Ethiopia issued the following news release:
Minister of Information, Berhan Hailu, says Ethiopia has come under a situation so compelling as to defend itself now that the fundamentalist leadership operating in Somalia under the umbrella of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has launched full-blown offensives to realize the Jihad it has repeatedly been declaring against Ethiopia in defiance of the calls brought forth to its attention to take up the peaceful option .
The minister called on the Ethiopian peoples to array their united forces towards maintaining the sovereignty and development of the country.
Ethiopia's persistent bids to find peaceful resolution of the ...