Pajamas Media’s Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says Eritrea sent 2,000 troops into Somalia to back up the Al-Qaeda linked Islamic Courts Union. Eritrea and Ethiopia hate each other and fought a nasty war from 1998-2000, so I can see the logic of supporting a proxy war against your enemy. But when that proxy is an Al-Qaeda stalking-horse, you’re walking on the fighting side of Uncle Sam.

And now Eritrea is threatening us.

One Somali official told Gartenstein-Ross that

the Eritreans “were in full combat” alongside the Islamic Courts, including firing on Ethiopian and Somali forces. Jibreel called for sanctions against the Eritrean government, saying, “I think they should be sanctioned because they were helping terrorists.”

With U.S. forces on the ground in Somalia, have American troops killed Eritreans in combat? So far, Pajamas Media’s sources have refused to comment.

One can guess, though. I imagine they’ve been pretty thoroughly sanctioned already.