{"id":32175,"date":"2012-09-28T08:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32175"},"modified":"2012-09-28T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:46:02","slug":"al-shababs-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32175","title":{"rendered":"al-Shabab&#8217;s last stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/A\/AF_SOMALIA?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-09-28-03-44-35\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that Kenyan troops staged a pre-dawn assault on the Somalian port city of Kismayo today in order to root out the last elements of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab. AP reports that the Kenyans are in control of the port facilities but not the entire city at this point. They also report that the Kenyans haven&#8217;t suffered any casualties yet;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Al-Shabab fighters are on the streets and heading toward the front line in speeding cars. Their radio is still on the air and reporting the war,&#8221; resident Mohamed Haji told The Associated Press. Haji said that helicopters were hitting targets in the town in southeastern Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Cdr. Dave Hecht, said the U.S. Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, is closely monitoring the situation but that &#8220;we are not participating in Kenya&#8217;s military activities in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The operation began five days ago with surgical attacks and gun placement at the jetty and warehouse,&#8221; Oguna said, adding that Somali national army troops participated in the assault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s reassuring to see someone besides the US and a handful  of our partners taking the fight to al-Qaeda for a change. I hope the Kenyans&#8217; successes continue and their luck in regards to casualties holds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press reports that Kenyan troops staged a pre-dawn assault on the Somalian port city of &hellip; <a title=\"al-Shabab&#8217;s last stand\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32175\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">al-Shabab&#8217;s last stand<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}