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2023-12-24 Africa Horn

US-assisted raid targets Al-Shabaab gathering in central Somalia, Govt says

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-24 2023-12-24 04:57|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top
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#1 The Star Logo
Email: advertise@the-star.co.ke ANTI-TERRORISM FIGHT Revealed: The CIA and MI6’s secret war in Kenya.
Clandestine Kenyan team paid and assisted by the CIA to take down terror suspects since 2004.
• A covert Kenyan paramilitary team armed and trained by the US and supported by UK intelligence is behind renditions and controversial killings of terror suspects.
• MI6 plays a key role in identifying, tracking and fixing the location of targets, as well in decisions determining their fate: kill or capture
Describing the CIA liaison’s hands-on approach to the RRT, another former Kenyan commando explained, “They will spearhead everything. They will do an operation plan, share that with you, [then] they will come take you down, sit you through it.” After the operation, he added, “they debrief you and then they’re gone.”
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by Namir Shabibi and DECLASSIFIED UK
News 21 September 2020

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-12-24 08:20|| 2023-12-24 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Link to the above comment and site.

Many thanks JB. Always good to hear from you my hermano.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-24 08:33|| 2023-12-24 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 So, started under Bush and Brennan.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-24 13:05|| 2023-12-24 13:05|| Front Page Top

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