Ethiopian Spokesman
Ethiopia has refused a request from Somalia to intervene in its escalating crisis, claiming it isn’t really into second helpings.
Somalian Transitional Government troops have been battling Islamist insurgents who control much of the country. The Speaker of Somalia’s parliament has urged neighboring countries to send troops within 24 hours. Ethiopian troops helped topple an Islamist movement in Somalia in 2006, but were withdrawn earlier this year.
This time, however, Ethiopia wasn’t interested, according to government spokesman Bereket Simon. “We’ve already invaded Somalia once and it didn’t yield us anything of value, apart from testing our latest military acquisitions.
“We would like to diversify this time around. Maybe get in on the action in some of our other neighbors, Eritrea or Djibouti, eh? It might even be fun to foment civil war among the Eritreans, those nasty seceeding bastards.”
