What odds the mercenaries try to take over?
[ShabelleMedia] A former French special forces officer wants to create a highly-trained mercenary force for the United Arab Emirates, comprising at least 3,000 foreigners.The mercenary forces that will be created for the UAE will be in charge of the mission abroad, and the places that will be deployed include Somalia and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, according to the Intelligence Online website.
The government of the UAE has decided to establish a mercenary force, which will carry out operations abroad, and the process of recruiting soldiers will begin in July this year, and it will end in the middle of next year 2025.
The recruits were promised a higher salary, and promotions every 3 years, with the training contract awarded to a French security agency led by a former commando officer.
The mercenary forces will be sent to the countries where the UAE has interests and those who are fighting in the region, such as Yemen, where since 2015 the Khilaj Coalition has been conducting an operation against the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
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Last month, four UAE soldiers, including the head of training, were killed in a shooting attack at the General Gordon base in Mogadishu. The attack was claimed by the al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
group.
In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has been heavily investing in ports in East Africa, including those in Somalia, such as Bosaso and Berbera, and it has an impact on the country’s political and military affairs.
Somalia’s security issues are of concern to the UAE as they are connected to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.
Somali pirates have recently returned after several years of attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen on ships passing through the Red Sea.Somali-Source: UAE to form Emirati foreign legion with 3000 recruits to boost military capabilities in Yemen Somali
Who could possibly be behind such an effort ?