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US deploys more troops to Somalia to fight Al shabaab
 [SHABELLENEWS] Dozens of American soldiers have been deployed to Mogadishu to train and equip Somali and AMISOM (African Union...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia) forces fighting extremism in Somalia, U.S. military officials have said. The troops’ arrival marks the first presence of American military forces in Somalia, other than a small unit of counterterrorism advisers, since March 1994 when the U.S. pulled out of the U.N. intervention operation in the war-torn state, five months after 18 U.S. special forces personnel were killed in a battle with Somali bully boyz that inspired the movie Black Hawk Down. "United States Africa Command will conduct various security cooperation and/or security force assistance events in Somalia in order to assist our allies and partners," U.S. Africa Command front man Pat Barnes told VOA on Thursday. The move is another example of the acceleration of U.S. efforts to help combat violent extremism across the globe, a second military official said. The goal of the operation is to build partner capacity while helping to improve the logistics of local forces battling the military group al-Shabaab ...  Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...A few dozen troops from the 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, arrived in Mogadishu on April 2 at the request of the Somali government, a U.S. military official told VOA. The team is carrying out a train-and-equip mission that is expected to last through the end of September, according to the official. Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy DeLeon, a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress ...George Soros-funded think tank headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , supplied progressivetalking points and policy positions for the Obamaregime. There was a revolving door between the White House and its nerve center, with the president staffing his administration with many of its operatives.... , said the U.S. team will help instill the professionalism and discipline that the local force can use to create the terms for security. "It gives them the tools to help themselves," DeLeon said in an interview with VOA. Posted by: Fred 2017-05-14 |
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