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while U.S. jets persistently caused terror from the air. Once the
Ethiopians had placed themselves and their puppet Somali "government" in the capital, Mogadishu, the Americans sent their other African proxies, the Ugandan and Burundi military, to make up most of the weak African "peacekeeping" force in Somalia. The Somali resistance to the Ethiopian invasion consider the African peacekeepers in Mogadishu to be agents of the U.S. and, concerning the Ugandans and Burundians they are right to attack. If there were ever a formula for bloody and protracted war in Somalia, it is Ethiopian occupation, which is already unifying diverse elements of the Somali population in fighting.'
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would reject an invitation to join the conference and later condemned the alliance. Reporters present for the creation of the ARS believed it was unlikely that the alliance would be
Islamist-led, as the opposition would be hoping to draw on the broad political support and fundraising opportunities of
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Somalia, leaders managed to restore law and order in most parts of Somalia in a short period of time. For six months, the Somali people had enjoyed living in harmony, peace, calmness and renovation. The U.S. worked hand in hand with the Ethiopian invaders at every level of the Ethiopian military,
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Transitional Federal Government unless Ethiopian forces withdrew from Somalia. Days following its formation, the US ambassador to Kenya and the US envoy to Somalia both publicly dismissed the ARS as an unimportant
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National Defence Force (ENDF) troops in Mogadishu were reportedly attacked in two locations in the city. During a November 2007 visit to the United States by ARS leader
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