Posted on 01/22/2023 3:39:33 PM PST by BenLurkin
The operation happened near the town of Galcad, about 260km (162 miles) northeast of the capital Mogadishu.
Earlier the Islamists killed seven soldiers after storming a military base in Galcad. Somalia's Information Ministry said dozens of the militants were killed.
Al-Shabab has been fighting Somalia's central government since 2006, aiming to impose an extremist Islamist regime. While it has been pushed out of Mogadishu and other areas it continues to attack military and civilian targets.
Last Monday the government said its army and local militias had captured the port town of Harardhere, which had been a key al-Shabab supply centre since 2010.
In its report on the Galcad fighting the US Africa Command said three al-Shabab vehicles were destroyed and "the command assesses that no civilians were injured or killed". The details have not been independently verified.
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got to hit a few asprin factories to get the doc story off the front pages
Too bad Illan Omar wasn’t among them. Bummer.
bttt
Is Bill and Hillary currently controlling the White House now? What happen to Obama?
Is this Déjà vu?
Probably sending another 150,000 of them to Minnesota would make more of a difference.
So the country is at war and not a word in the media.
Most of the Al-Shabab terrorist are living in Minneapolis and work as mall cops.
Puppet Biden is just killing off those stragglers who don’t want to come to the USA.
> What are we doing there? <
I’ll field that one. The United States must be involved in everything, everywhere. We are the world’s policeman!
That kind of thinking contributed to the collapse the Roman and British empires.
But this time it will be different.😟
What national interests do we have in Somalia? Personally, I don’t want to go there or have any Somali ever step foot on American soil. We need to stop wasting money on crap like this. Just let them kill each other. They offer nothing to civilization.
This is a bad time to be a dirt pour beduin family now that we have a wounded President.
“What are we doing there?”
We’ve got our noses and boots, in far, far, far too many places where we have no business being involved.
Did you ever see “Black Hawk Down”? You’d think we would’ve learned from our mistakes in the early 1990s, but unfortunately we failed to.
Funny how liberals no longer say “this is what creates terrorists.”
A couple wins for the good guys. Omar is crying.
We’ve technically been at war since the open-ended AUMF was passed in 2001 and never repealed.
Well, we learned no troops on the ground except for a few SOF guys, just drones and JDAMS.
What is the strategic interest of the USA? The Somali threat to the USA is in Minnesota.
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