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US military support for Somalia to increase

by thebesig••53

The US is on track to provide more support to the Somalian government in its fight to stamp out al-Shabab. The US reported that 61 tons of weapons and ammunition arrived in Mogadishu. Somalia is leading this effort and has the assistance of the African Union. Support coming from deployed US military personnel involves drone strikes, intelligence, and training.

From the Military Times:

In a separate joint statement with other leading security partners Qatar, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Britain, the U.S. said they will support Somalia’s efforts to manage weapons and ammunition that could allow the United Nations Security Council to lift its arms embargo on the country.

“A very productive meeting,” Somalia’s national security adviser, Hussein Sheikh-Ali, tweeted after the Washington gathering.

The government of Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared “total war” last year on the thousands of al-Shabab militants who for more than a decade have controlled parts of the country and carried out devastating attacks while exploiting clan divisions and extorting millions of dollars a year in their quest to impose an Islamic state.

The current offensive was sparked in part by local communities and militias driven to the brink by al-Shabab’s harsh taxation policies amid the country’s worst drought on record. Somalia’s government quickly lent support. Now neighbors Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti have agreed to a joint “search and destroy” military campaign.

The Military Times has additional information here.

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53 thoughts on “US military support for Somalia to increase”

        1. Was going to the USS Iwo Jima Class ship reunion in 2007 in chicago via Amtrack (Penn Station) and was wearing a tee shirt with a silk screened 45 record on it and one of the crew members told me that her Dad sang with the Crows and I let another crew member listen to my Vocal Group Harmony (Doo Wopp) CD’s over night.

    2.  👍  👍  🙌 

      Somalia make the underside of an outhouse look good.
      We need to ship a certain Squad member (or the whole accursed Squad) there, then pull out – except we have some good allies that would be left hanging and I wouldn’t want to Blue Falcon them.

          1. Yes and no. For the weapon to be close enough the gamma pulse will irradiate some materials near ground zero. Even with high atmospheric testing daughter elements are found.

            All those little zoomies running into everything around them at near the speed of light, with so much energy they can strip particles off of other atoms, creating a cascade of more and more energy, until the proximity of effectible atoms drops below criticality.. but that shit goes everydangwhere and does not discriminate over which atoms it pulverizes.

            Beautiful and terrifying.

    5. “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?’

    1. War Pigs gonna war pig.

      After the totally successful exfil from AFG (don’t question it, bigot) our ‘killing brown children’ metric has been dropping too fast for the lizard people. It pains them greatly.

  4. If only Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 was clear.

    Or maybe I missed the debate and vote to engage in these hostilities?

    Nope, I got it! These Acts of War by our military are actually done by map illiterate privateers!!!

    For those keeping score at home:

    Russian Green Men in Eastern Ukraine = bad
    Chicom cops and ‘cultural’ centers in West = bad
    US Military-for-hire anyfuckwhere on Earth = good

    I’m glad we worked this out.

    1. “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?’

      Use it or lose it, man.
      Besides, we are the good guys, and “My our strength is as the strength of ten
      Because my our heart is pure”.

      It is our “mission civilisatrice”, our “manifest destiny” our sacred duty to “take up the white man’s burden” .

    1. Thanks for posting this one of Griz. He was an old friend of Jonn’s and I remember the post he put up a few years back.

      1. Thank You so much for sharing. MustangCPT.

        Even though it will be 30 years this coming October, seeing these names and faces still brings back deep emotions.

        MIilitary Phonies and Military Embellishers should be ashamed of themselves.

  21. Military support to increase in Somalia…

    Does this mean the U.S. is going at it alone without the UN?

    (Seems we’ve seen this movie before, and the ending didn’t go so well.)

    Either way, whoever approved this plan should be hung by the neck until dead on the National Mall.

  23. “The Faces of Mogadishu”

    https://www.tumblr.com/valeriusm/100034258321/the-faces-of-mogadishu-sgt-cornell-lemont

    SGT Cornell Lemont Houston, Sr.
    10th Mountain, 41st Engineer (QRF)
    Age: 31
    Died: 10/06/1993
    Home Town: Mobile, AL

    SSG Daniel D. Busch
    1st Special Forces – Delta Force
    Age: 25
    Died: 10/03/1993
    Home Town: Portage, WI

    SFC Earl Robert Fillmore, Jr.
    1st Special Forces – Delta Force
    Age: 28
    Died: 10/03/1993
    Home Town: Derry, PA

    MSG Gary Ivan Gordon
    1st Special Forces – Delta Force
    Age: 33
    Died: 10/03/1993
    Home Town: Lincoln, ME
    SFC Matthew Loren Rierson
    1st Special Forces – Delta Force
    Age: 33
    Died: 10/06/1993
    Home Town: Nevada, IA

    SFC Randall “Randy” D. Shughart
    1st Special Forces – Delta Force
    Age: 35
    Died: 10/03/1993
    Home Town: Newville, PA

    MSG Timothy “Griz” Lynn Martin
    1st Special Forces – Delta Force
    Age: 38
    Died: 10/03/1993

    1. SGT Dominick M. Pilla
      75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Battalion
      Age: 21
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Vineland, NJ

      SPC James M. Cavaco
      75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Battalion
      Age: 26
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Forestdale, MA

      SGT James Casey Joyce
      75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Battalion
      Age: 24
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Plano, TX

      PFC James Henry Martin, Jr.
      10th Mountain, 2/14 Infantry (QRF)
      Age: 23
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Collinsville, IL

      CPL James “Jamie” E. Smith
      75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Battalion
      Age: 21
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Long Valley, NJ

      SGT Lorenzo M. Ruiz
      75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Battalion
      Age: 27
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: El Paso, TX

      CPL Richard W. Kowalewski, Jr.
      75th Ranger Regiment, 3rd Battalion
      Age: 20
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Crucible, PA

      CWO Clifton “Elvis” P. Wolcott
      160th Special Operations Regiment
      Age: 36
      Died: 10/03/1993
      Home Town: Lockport, NY

      1. CWO Donovan “Bull” Briley
        160th Special Operations Regiment
        Age: 33
        Died: 10/03/1993
        Home Town: North Little Rock, AR

        CWO Raymond “Ironman” A. Frank
        160th Special Operations Regiment
        Age: 45
        Died: 10/03/1993
        Home Town: Monrovia, CA

        SSG Thomas “Tommie” J. Field
        160th Special Operations Regiment
        Age: 25
        Died: 10/03/1993
        Home Town: Lisbon, ME

        SSG William “Bill” David Cleveland, Jr.
        160th Special Operations Regiment
        Age: 34
        Died: 10/04/1993
        Home Town: Peoria, AZ

        1. 30?!? FUCKING YEARS?!?!?

          Shit….I guess it HAS been.

          I volunteered and only made it to Dover…I was there Christmas through April and then at 179 days SECDEF pulled the plug…

  25. The MIC grins. I guess since they have increased the production lines of munitions, we have an excess to ship off to another Tar Baby Boggy hole, supposedly to support people that would kill us as quickly as they would their like shaded “enemies”.

    I personally like the idea of pulling all of our people out and carpetbombing the place with anpe and willy pete.

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