Does the United States still support Ethiopias December 2006 invasion?
We told them [Ethiopia] that they should not go in. Once they went in absolutely we had to try to assist them and the [Somali] transitional federal government, which had invited them in. We support the transitional federal government and its decision to ask the Ethiopians to assist them. The picture that you paint of Mogadishu as this tranquil, idyllic town is completely inaccurate. People were being assassinated. People were being executed. Is the average Somali living in Mogadishu better off today, or were they were better off under the Islamic courts? You’d have to ask the average Somali living in Mogadishu. [Laughs] Why does there seem to be so little support for the [U.S.-backed Somali] transitional federal government? Have they not done enough to reach out to the various clans and factions? I don’t know the percentage of support to the government. So I can’t answer that question. What I know is that there are terrorists that are attacking this [Somali] government. They’re attacki
