>>5934139<span class="mu-i">"The ICU leadership consider the brief capture of"</span> Hobyo & Cadaado <span class="mu-i">"as a violation of the peace agreement signed in Khartoum, and further talks, scheduled for the end of the month, seem less and less likely. The fact that"</span> the attack was done by <span class="mu-i">Ethiopian soldiers prompted the ICU leadership to declare a jihad against all Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia.[39] The Beledweyne Sharia court had already issued a call for jihad earlier, but this made it official.</span>
<span class="mu-i">A televised address by Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, chairman of the Supreme Council and the most moderate and respected of the ICU leadership, wearing a military style outfit and holding an AK-47, broke the news of Jihad to Somalia.</span>
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Xaiver stands in his bulletproof, blue vest and helmet that reads "Press", clearing his throat.
"In a scene that was a recreation of the ambush just a week ago in the south," Xaiver starts. "Ethiopian forces raced across the border this early morning. In a lightening offense, with scattered ambushes and flanking maneuvers, ICU forces in the area were killed, captured, and routed."
The camera rotated slowly and displayed that they were in a field of brunt out and destroyed trucks, their frames like skeletons that had all the flesh melted off the bone. There was craters caused by tank shells and mortars.
"The fighting men of an entire local clan, recently joining the ICU, crushed by the sudden use of a national military power. Thousands of fighting men, missing. Some are bodies, some captured, and others having run for their lives... Others having said their prayers and shot themselves to avoid capture."
