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2024-10-06 Africa Horn

Airstrikes Intensify in Central Somalia in Ongoing Battle Against Al-Shabaab

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-06 2024-10-06 04:39|| || Front Page|| [11166 views ] Top
File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

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In memory of "Griz" of SFOD-D and other US ARMY personnel that died, to free Somalia. Only to have it revert back to the same 3rd world tribal $hit hole it was.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-10-06 05:08|| 2024-10-06 05:08|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Never mind Somalia, worry about Minnesota.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-06 06:28|| 2024-10-06 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Skidmark: the airstrikes are probably the work of the US Air Force courtesy of AFRICOM. The other force providing international assistance is the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), which seems to be a regional force along the lines of the UN blue helmets, so I imagine they aren’t shooting things with airplanes.

Turkey has a military base nearish to Mogadishu, where they are doing their bit to improve the professionalism of the Somali National Army, both enlisted and officers, turning them into Gorgor infantry battalions, as well as adding to the training of the Danab Brigade commandos, which started out as an AFRICOM project. But the impression I have is that the Turks don’t go hunting in the field.

You understand that I don’t actually understand what I’m talking about here, but I suspect you will. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-06 21:22|| 2024-10-06 21:22|| Front Page Top

#4 What a sweetheart, and expert in regional dynamics!
Not just a pretty brain.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-06 23:07|| 2024-10-06 23:07|| Front Page Top

#5 *Blush*

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-06 23:56|| 2024-10-06 23:56|| Front Page Top

#6 One of these years you’ll have to explain to me what all that actually means, Skidmark. I haven’t actually got a clue.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-06 23:58|| 2024-10-06 23:58|| Front Page Top

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