In response to Karl Hallowell's question in this post, what does he think this means?

Ethiopia's prime minister said on Tuesday that many international terrorists had been killed, injured or captured in the fighting in Somalia.

Meles Zenawi was quoted by the French newspaper Le Monde as saying that suspected terrorists from Britain were among them.

"Many international terrorists are dead in Somalia," Meles was quoted as saying.

"Photographs have been taken and passports from different countries have been collected. The Kenyans are holding Eritrean and Canadian passport holders. We have injured people coming from Yemen, Pakistan, Sudan, the United Kingdom."

Let's keep it coming.

[Update a few minutes later]

Here's an analysis of the situation, with a description of the role of US Special Forces. Those are the kind of boots on the ground we need, with a lot more boots on the ground from regional allies. This was the key to overthrowing the Taliban as well. Unfortunately, it's not clear who our regional allies in overthrowing the mullahs would be.

Hmmm, the ICU originally sounded to me like it consists of local Muslims. OTOH, the training camps with roughly 1000 foreigners sounds like the Al Qaeda MO. My guess is that Al Qaeda allied with the locals and set up a military presence, much as they did in Afghanistan. I assume we'll get more details as time goes on.

That does answer my question. Thank you, Rand.

overthrowing a government with insurgents is a lot
easier then supporting a government against insurgents.

It was easy enough to overthrow the taliban, it's been
very hard to support the Karzai government.
5 years since Karzai and the warlords were installed,
and the Taliban and the drug lords are fighting hard against
Western Forces.

After five years the Taliban are still "fighting hard" -- while Karzai is still in power.