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 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Isayas Gabriel remembers when tens of thousands of his fellow soldiers were cut down during Ethiopia's last war with Eritrea, a 2 1/2 year bloodbath over a seemingly insignificant border town called Badme.
Seven years after the war's official end, he is among the many watching as the countries appear to be gearing up for Round 2 — a conflict that would have implications far beyond the Horn of Africa, which the West has long feared could become a safe haven for Islamic extremists.
An international commission charged with marking out the border disbanded recently after the two sides prevented it from physically delineating the border it had chosen, evidence of the stubborn resistance to mediation.
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