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US contemplates sending Special Forces to Somalia |
2021-07-02 |
[Garowe] The United States could be sending a contingent of Special Forces to Somalia, it has emerged, over eight months after the Department of Defense repositioned over 700 soldiers from the Horn of Africa nation which has been struggling with instability. Former President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the Worldin the general election... repositioned most of the US troops to Kenya and Djibouti as part of his long-term plan of "cost-cutting" but he failed to clinch his seat, losing to Joe The Big GuyBiden ![]() , a Democrat. The US has been integral in pushing for Somalia's stability. With reports on the planned deployment of the US troops to Somalia, US Africa Command boss Gen. Stephen Townsend did not directly confirm the reports but pledged to continue helping the Horn on Africa nation in fighting "There's really no denying our fairly sudden repositioning out of Somalia earlier this year has introduced new layers of risk and complexity to our mission there," Townsend said perhaps in the strongest hint that the soldiers will come back. "What we're trying to manage that risk and complexity." ...as opposed to figuring out how to win the war, then winning it? The New York Times![]() ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that Biden has suggested to the Department of Defense to redeploy American troops to Somalia to help in the al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... war, but the request is yet to be approved. The American troops were responsible for training and equipping of Danab Special Forces. Already, the US has deployed Special Forces to northeastern Kenya where they will work closely with the Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] in degrading the al-Shabaab threat. The troops started reporting as early as last week according to military sources in Kenya. According to Townsend, al-Shabaab is "the world's largest, best-financed, most kinetically active arm of al-Qaeda". "We see threats there to African stability. We see threats in Somalia to regional stability. We even see potential threats there to the US homeland." Al-Shabaab controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia but its capability has been significantly reduced due to military operations in the country. The group targets people believed or accused of being US spies in the country. "We've given our recommendations to our civilian leaders. And we're waiting on them to make their judgments on those recommendations," Townsend said. "al-Shabaab still enjoys a lot of freedom of action on the territory. You can really feel the atmosphere of the insecurity there." The federal government of Somalia has been asking for help from the US in the al-Shabaab war, which has taken almost a decade. The holy warriors collect taxes from locals and they are hell-bent to dethrone the fragile UN-backed Somalia administration. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#15 No. I already lost someone I served with in Operation Gothic Serpent. The Somalis can all go collectively fuck themselves and they are not worth any more American blood or treasure. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2021-07-02 23:46 |
#14 Endless war for the military-industrial complex, but everybody in Al-Shabaab is POC, so the optics are poor at best Jojo. Still, it has a great sounding tough-guy backstory of fighting terrorists and helping diversity in Kenya by reintroducing a few white guys? |
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-07-02 13:18 |
#13 A new market fo |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-07-02 12:51 |
#12 #11 Can we send Rep. Ilhan Omar with them as a 'consultant'? Maybe she'll get lost in the jungle or something. Posted by: Raj 2021-07-02 11:09 ...She may be insane, but she's not crazy enough to go back there. It's dangerous. Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-07-02 12:07 |
#11 I don't think there'smuch jungle to get lost in, but we can leave in the desert with a slurpee and wish her good luck. |
Posted by: Spert Climp5725 2021-07-02 11:21 |
#10 Can we send Rep. Ilhan Omar with them as a 'consultant'? Maybe she'll get lost in the jungle or something. |
Posted by: Raj 2021-07-02 11:09 |
#9 Wag the dog Shake the muppet |
Posted by: Winky Clinese8165 2021-07-02 09:14 |
#8 But if a white GI kills a black rebel. Will BLOM FLY OUT to protest and riot? |
Posted by: NN2N1 2021-07-02 09:09 |
#7 Hurray! A new war! What do you bet this one goes on for years and is never won, either? Say, when's the last time we won a war? I'm thinking Battleship Missouri, 1945. |
Posted by: Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-07-02 08:50 |
#6 Will they be celebrating diversity and rejecting white supremacy while they are there? |
Posted by: Woozle Theamble4130 2021-07-02 07:55 |
#5 There were at one time, seasoned regional forces that could have successfully intervened, but the feckless West assisted in their destruction.![]() |
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-02 06:55 |
#4 Translation: We have Special Forces troops in Somalia |
Posted by: Sonny Black 2021-07-02 06:46 |
#3 Having lost a friend (GRIZ) and learned of several wounded that I knew...the last time (Oct. 3rd & 4th) a Liberal democrat president used Africa for media deflection. I have ask WHY? do this meaningless political stunt again? Or does B-boy think it will win him AA votes state side? |
Posted by: NN2N1 2021-07-02 06:20 |
#2 The federal government of Somalia has been asking for help from the US in the al-Shabaab war I think there should be a strict condition for renouncing islam and shutting down mosques if you're an islamic nation and want help with jihaders. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2021-07-02 02:16 |
#1 Why to Somalia and not Minneapolis? |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-07-02 02:06 |