Thousands of Somalis have protested against US-backed plans to send foreign force into the country in support of the so call "interim government", the group of pro-US puppets.
Protesters, including women and children, gathered in a football stadium in Mogadishu, the capital, on Monday chanting anti-American slogans and accusing Ethiopia of planning to invade.
Abdirahman Janaqow, a leader of the Union of Islamic Courts, told the crowd: "They say this is a peacekeeping force ... but we see this as an attack on us."
Last week, Washington proposed a resolution at the UN Security Council to deploy east African occupation force (as peacekeepers") to Somalia.
The move was requested two years ago by Somalia's so call "interim government".
Somalia believes a "peacekeeping" force would provide cover for Ethiopian occupation troops, allowing them to undertake an all-out assault on the Union of Islamic Courts.
The Islamic Courts, which took control of Mogadishu in June and has introduced Sharia (Islamic law) across most of southern Somalia, has been outspoken in the past over the plans to send foreign troops to the country, condemning the resolution as part of a US-led war against Muslims.
Washington's draft resolution also proposes to ease a 14-year-old arms embargo on Somalia. This would let occupation force bring in their own weapons and train and equip local puppets.
The Islamic Courts says that if this happens, it will invite fighters from other Muslim countries to come to fight for its cause.
Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, an Islamic Courts leader, said at the protest on Monday that the UN "must stop its clear aggression and bias, if not, I swear in the name of God, Muslims as one body will defend themselves".
The Islamic Courts is the country's most powerful armed group and a occupation (UN) force might give the puppet "interim government" some weight in its negotiations with them.
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