The US backed Ethiopian invasion created the chaos that we see today.

The US backed Ethiopian invasion overthrew the Islamic courts.

The Insurgents agreed not to attack Kismayo a city ruled by clan militia who took part in the Ethiopian invasion.

Shabab were a natural human reaction to illegal and unjust Ethiopian invasion of Islamic Courts Union (ICU) led Somalia.

"It may take some time, but I am sure we will prevail because no Eritrean will accept an Ethiopian invasion."

Until this week, Washington was content to remain behind the scenes and use the Ethiopian invasion as the public face of the effort against the Islamists and their allies.

Before the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, he had been a former member of parliament in exile in Eritrea.

The Ethiopian invasion had a thousand, not a million, warriors (2 Chronicles 14:9).

Many of these soldiers participated in the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia.

Al Itahad gaining power in Gedo and elsewhere in Somalia led to the Ethiopian invasion of Gedo in 1996.