Secret deal cut between the United States and Ethiopia to invade Somalia

Secret deal cut between the United States and Ethiopia to invade Somalia
One of the released Wiki Leaks cables, suggests that US Under Secretary of State for Africa, Jendayi Frazer in the Bush Administration  pressed Ethiopia's President Meles Zenawi to invade its neighbor Somalia when Ethiopia had no intention of invading Somalia in 2006. The Bush Administration  wanted to bring down the strongly growing Union of Islamic Courts , hence it pushed Ethiopia to invade . The U.S. military provided military aid and trained  Ethiopian troops.  Frazer was  was pushing the Ethiopians to attack, while  laying the groundwork both for the attack in the U.S. media and for a cover-up, by claiming that although the United States did not support Ethiopian military action, she could understand "the Somali threat" and why Ethiopia might find it necessary to go to war. Zenawi gave in to the US pressure with little support left for him at his homeland, to attack  Somalia.in 2006.
The attack finally did not go well for both US and Ethiopians . But it resulted in 20,000 deaths and according to some reports, left up to 2 million Somalis homeless. The 50,000 Ethiopian invasion force withdrew. “ the generally more moderate Union of Islamic Courts was weakened, but it was soon replaced in Somalia by far more radical and militant Islamic groups with a more openly anti-American agenda. In 2009,  the Ethiopian forces finally left the  Somalia  soil ,  leaving it  in  a more unstable  situation than when they attacked in 2006.
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