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"ofcourse their is a ethiopian army but i dont call it really a fair army most of these mens are etnitic tribes that are forced to join the army except of those mens do you have ethios like tigres that joined the army for their own interests ore to protect their uncle and you have amxaaro who joined the ehtiopian army only to go war with eritrea remember the war between eritrea and ethiopia not one tigre soldier died.now most of these mens left the army after the collapse of ethiopian poltics in 1996 and thats why you have those rebelgroups like the olf tlf the Ethiopian Democratic Union and the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Party.and each of those groups dont trust each other and thus gives that a bad influence of their army.see it like the sna after some of the tribes in the goverment couldnt trust siyaad barre did each of those mens created their own rebelgroup like the snm usc ssdf spm etc."

So if this Army is so suspect, then how did it kick the shit out of the ICU and march right into Mogadischu like it owned place? Something does not work in your analysis. Either the Ethiopian Army is large and reasonably capable, or the ICU and Hawiye are incompetent idiots.