http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/world … ref=africaSomalia’s Parliament pleaded Saturday for its neighbors and the international community to send in troops within 24 hours after days of intense fighting here in the capital and the deaths of several top government officials put new strains on the country’s beleaguered leaders.
“We are under attack by foreign terrorists,” Sheik Adan Mohamed Nor, the speaker of Parliament, said in a news conference. “They are planning to destabilize the security of the whole region. We ask our neighbors, like Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Yemen, to militarily intervene in Somalia.”
Foreign jihadists have joined the battle in Somalia, but analysts say the vast majority of the fighters trying to topple the government are Somali.
Mr. Nor made his appeal Saturday as government troops lost, and then said they regained, a crucial neighborhood of the city — a claim the insurgents denied. The government also declared a state of emergency, but it controls just a few neighborhoods in the city, so it was unclear what effect the decree would have.
I don't foresee how any country would want to get bogged down in that hell hole, but do you really think it has the potential to destabilize the entire region?
Personally I think the region is already unstable.
