The Ethiopians, allied with the Somali People's Democratic Party, have at least 5,000 troops inside Somalia battling Aideed's forces, the Eritreans, Al-Ittihad (an armed Islamic Group based in Somalia) and the insurgent Ethiopian group, the Oromo Liberation Front. For a little R&R from their mega-border war with Ethiopia, Eritrean soldiers spend their holidays from the front in Somalia helping Aideed, the Somali National Front and the OLF. This has become a regular terrorist all-star game. Or a "technical" demolition derby. Ethiopia and Eritrea have been trying to outflank each other since squabbles over their common 1,000-mile-long border erupted into the world's largest ground war in May 1998. The folks in Cape Town are no longer safe. Ethiopian advances have brought much of southern Somalia under their control.
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