Somali Islamists vow holy war on Ethiopian troops

MOGADISHU, July 20 (Reuters) Somalia's Islamists today threatened to wage holy war on Ethiopian troops it said had crossed into the Horn of Africa nation.

''God willing, we will remove the Ethiopians in our country and wage a jihadi war against them,'' Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a senior Islamist in charge of defence, told reporters.

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