Ethiopia(Woyanne) entered Somalia two years ago to remove the Union of Islamic Courts , elements of whose leadership had been making provocative and aggressive statements about Ethiopia.

But the reality is that Ethiopian(Woyanne) intervention, backed by the US and others, seems to have bolstered precisely the elements of the UIC, al-Shabab, that are most at odds with Ethiopia’s interests and may very well have fatally undermined any chance Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) had of gaining legitimacy.

CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his foreign policy adviser, Susan E. Rice, to be ambassador to the United Nations, picking an advocate of “dramatic action” against genocide as he rounds out his national security team, Democrats close to the transition said Sunday. More on Obama’s Choice for U.N. Is Advocate of Strong Action Against Mass Killings

“…Somalia will forfeit any claims on or support for the Somali region in Ethiopia or any other disgruntled groups within Ethiopia, while Ethiopia will make sure that Somaliland or any other region, like Puntland, of Somalia will never be recognized as independent by the African Union—the prerequisite for the rest of the world to follow! ” More on Somalia: What a neatly-woven secret web!