Ethiopia has moved another 2,000 troops into Somalia to join 2,000 it already had deployed in the area. This is in response to movement by Islamist militias from Mogadishu toward Baidoa, the current seat of the provisional government of Somalia.
Berhan Hailu, the Ethiopian minister of information, told Reuters in Addis Ababa: "We will use all means at our disposal to crush the Islamist group if they attempt to attack Baidoa, the seat of the transitional federal government."
The Ethiopian government is apparently willing to have an Islamist Mogadishu, but not an Islamist Somalia.