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2006-11-27 Africa Horn

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-27 09:44|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It may be in Ethiopia's self interest to deny outside aid, but you can be certain that the United States is providing it.

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Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-11-27 10:14|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-11-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#2 If the Ethiopians call for a Crusade there are many, many men who will answer them.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-27 10:58|| 2006-11-27 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 History notes that an Ethiopian army was turned back from the gates of Mecca a few weeks before Mohammed's birth. It is interesting to speculate what might have happened had a Christian power been in control of the city years later.

Alternate history genius Harry Turtledove has in fact speculated about it. His fix-up novel Agent of Byzantium is set in the 13th century Byzantine Empire of a world where the Ethiopians had conquered Mecca and Islam never appeared. Instead, young "Mohamet" became a Christian and eventually an Orthodox saint.
Agent of Byzantiumis a rollicking good read, btw, as the hero becomes an imperial special agent and travels about re-writing the history of technology: discovering brandy and smallpox vaccination, stealing the telescope from a Mongol shaman who had stumbled onto it, and making off with the gunpowder formula from a backward Frankish monastery where it was manufactured for use against Byzantine forces.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-27 12:44|| 2006-11-27 12:44|| Front Page Top

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