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Somalia's daring move aimed at defeating Al-Shabaab
2022-08-26
[Garowe] In an audacious appointment, Somalia's new government has included a former al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
bad boy, who once fought against the authorities, in the cabinet, but the weekend's deadly hotel siege is a reminder of the tough task ahead for those in power.

When Somalia's new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office in May he declared a top priority was bringing an end to the country's 15-year Islamist insurgency.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4   I read about the Afghan army's daring move aimed at defeating the Taliban right here. 😸

No doubt here as well as elsewhere. All grist for the mill.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-08-26 14:45  

#3  Hopefully, they gave him the highest security clearance possible.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-08-26 12:46  

#2  I swear I read about the Afghan army's daring move aimed at defeating the Taliban right here. 😸

This is all just drama to reel in the good ol' tranche payers of America and Europe. For the MIC to set up an ice cream cone that proceeds to lick itself, and leak money and arms to other sasquatch groups in Africa.

'Oh save the innocent dwellers of this shithole! Send your money! Send your weapons! Send your boys! Send your blood! We're just on the verge of winning against murderous moslemnity! By the way we're also moslems!'
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-08-26 09:29  

#1  The entire reason that these movements exist is that the governments involved are corrupt, murderous regimes that care nothing for their own people. These rebel movements do a better job governing than the government.

Killing them alongside innocent civilians with drones accomplishes nothing other than making people in comfortable First World countries feel good about themselves.
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933   2022-08-26 01:57  

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