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Somalis say Ethiopian troops enter, Addis denies
Tue Feb 3, 2009 6:11am EST
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops who left Somalia last month after a more than two-year intervention have crossed back over the border to prepare an assault against Islamic militants, residents said on Tuesday.
Addis Ababa denied their account as false and malicious.
Residents in the town of Baladwayne, near the Ethiopia border, said soldiers had moved about 12 miles into Somalia to join forces with former rulers of Baladwayne whom the hardline insurgent al Shabaab group ousted at the end of 2008.
"We have been frightened for the last 36 hours because Ethiopian troops and the ousted Baladwayne authorities have come closer," local elder Abdirizak Ali told Reuters from Baladwayne town.
"We anticipate attacks from those troops."
Addis Ababa has said it is keeping a heavy troop presence on the border in case of threats to its security.
But it denied crossing back, after a highly-publicized withdrawal from Somalia completed on January 26. "The army is within the Ethiopian border. There is no intention to go back," minister and government spokesman Bereket Simon said, calling the report a "wicked" distraction from progress in Somalia.
Although the presence or not of Ethiopian soldiers on Somali soil is a highly sensitive subject for both nations, diplomats have said privately they would not be surprised if Addis Ababa made some minor incursions to deter the Islamist rebels.
Witnesses have, however, confused soldiers in the past, as Somali soldiers have borrowed Ethiopian uniforms, or vice-versa. Also, Ethiopians from the border are ethnically Somali.
Al Shabaab, which means youth in Arabic and is on Washington's list of terrorist organizations, took advantage of Ethiopia's final pullout of Somalia a week ago to take more towns and increase its territorial control in the south.
ISLAMISTS CONDEMN PEACEKEEPERS
Though it has held Baladwayne, near the Ethiopian border, for several months, it took Baidoa, the seat of the Somali parliament, on January 26, the same day that Ethiopian soldiers left and crossed back over the border.
Al Shabaab has been holding demonstrations this week against Somalia's new President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist whom they accuse of selling out to the West.
Ahmed was elected at the weekend as part of a U.N.-brokered plan to try and form a unity government and bring peace to Somalia for the first time since 1991. His main challenge is to defeat, isolate or somehow bring on board al Shabaab.
A student in Baladwayne, Habiba Ismail, said it appeared al Shabaab fighters had been planning to regroup there, which might have prompted an Ethiopian incursion. "Some al Shabaab from Mogadishu have already arrived. Others are on the way." Continued...
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