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If Horn of Africa comes the new Caliphate of terror

Magdi Allam - I would be willing to bet that in a few months will prevail if the argument that Somalia will become the new front of the "Islamic Holy War 'of Bin Laden and his followers, the blame will be Bush who was the instigator of Ethiopia to occupy a country that, after all, was beginning to experience a degree of calm.

But as I hope to lose the bet , at least try to clarify what we're talking about. Is this tense military invasion of Ethiopia to occupy Somalia? No, because if this was the goal, he could much more easily achieved between 1994 and 2005, when Somalia was literally a "no man's land ', without any centralized power and no strength to withstand Ethiopian army. However, it is a war between Ethiopia and Somalia? No, since the Ethiopian army entered into Somalia at the request of the Somali Transitional Government, which is the only authority recognized by the international community.

is a war in connotation religious between a country's pro-Western and Christian against another Muslim linked to the Arab and Islamic world? Should not be, because in reality the majority of Ethiopians are Muslims, as well as his army continues to rely on a predominantly Russian weapons, while the agreement with the United States is a recent phenomenon. It is essentially an illegal war waged in violation of international law? No, since the African Union has recognized the right of Ethiopia to defend its sovereignty threatened by the expansionist ambitions of the Islamic Courts that have revived the intention to create a "Greater Somalia" and that the United Nations itself have so far refrained from condemning the Ethiopian military action while calling for a political solution.

is a neo-colonial war to get their hands on oil or other natural resources? No, because both Somalia and Ethiopia are among the poorest countries in the world with a per capita income of 600 and $ 800 respectively. It is a new stage in the war against global Islamic terrorism by the U.S. through a third party? Yes and no, since worrying about the obvious collusion between the regime of Somali Islamic Courts and al Qaeda is not only Washington, masoprattutto the government in Addis Ababa who fears the contagion of extremism than others Islamic. It is the issue of Islamic terrorism that sees the key to the problem to understand the nature of the conflict soon erupted in the Horn of Africa. A situation that should have been obvious to us all when a recent UN report denounced the presence in Somalia of thousands of Islamic terrorists from Yemen, Eritrea, Syria and Libya, on 9 October when the Islamic Courts have declared Jihad , understood as "holy war" against Ethiopia, December 23 when they launched an appeal "to all the fighters of the Islamic world to take part in jihad in Somalia."

is why it becomes easy to predict that soon in Somalia will become a battlefield of global Islamic terrorism, a kind of new Iraq. Well, unless you imagine that the war in Somalia is a kind of cancer metastasis in Iraq, who have so far argued loudly that if it were not for American intervention in Iraq, Islamic terrorism would not be so disruptive anywhere in the world, should reconsider what appears more and more an act of faith undermined by injury rather than a reality supported by facts.

Just another Somali shows that global Islamist terrorism is far from being reactive, but the result of a deliberate aggressive strategy decided and implemented by powerful puppeteers for the express purpose of establishing an international Islamic Caliphate. Nor is this ominous prospect scongiurerà continuing to court, as they are making the European Union and the Arab League, the Islamic Courts to return to the negotiating table. But if they have been groped and fail to do a coup to eliminate the transitional Somali government in Baidoa perched! As risparmiamoci the ridiculous myth to dust off the UN, whose forces shamefully abandoned to the chaos in Somalia in 1995, continuing to imagine it as a magic wand to resolve the conflict. The truth is that there are no short cuts: if we want peace in Somalia, we have to confront the global threat of Islamic terrorism that has succeeded there, too, amid general indifference, to establish his own power.

by Corriere della Sera