ARTICLE: Islamist Forces in Somali City Vanish, By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, December 28, 2006

On the evaporating Islamists in Somalia, you have to wonder if this isn't the same-old, same-old where the insurgents refuse to fight the war and wait for the resulting postwar.

Is this state-on-state? Hardly. Just Ethiopia's military going into Somalia looking for bad guys. Sound familiar?