Wakil Menteri Pertahanan Somalia Salah Ali Jelle mengatakan gabungan tentara pemerintah dan pasukan Ethiopia di lapangan mengungguli jumlah anggota milisi Islam di Jilib sampai dua berbanding satu.
Somalia's deputy defence minister, Salad Ali Jelle, said the joint government and Ethiopian forces on the ground outnumbered the Islamists in Jilib by more than two to one.