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American Soldiers Help Mozambique Battle an Expanding ISIS Affiliate
The New York Times ^ | 15 March 2021 | Declan Walsh and Eric Schmitt

Posted on 03/15/2021 7:07:37 PM PDT by Theoria

With a small military training program, the United States military has joined efforts to fight a brutal insurgency that has devastated northern Mozambique.

American Special Forces soldiers began training Mozambican troops this week as part of an effort to repel a spreading insurgency in northeastern Mozambique that American officials say is linked to the Islamic State. The insurgency, near some of the world’s biggest gas reserves, has killed at least 2,000 civilians and displaced another 670,000.

The American program is modest in size and scope: a dozen Army Green Berets are to train Mozambican marines for the next two months. But it signals the entry of the United States military into a counterinsurgency effort that has been aided so far mainly by South African mercenaries, who have faced accusations of human rights abuses.

The war in Mozambique is part of an alarming expansion of insurgencies believed to have ties to the Islamic State in several parts of Africa. In the past year, militants have captured swaths of territory in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, including a port on the Indian Ocean, and beheaded hundreds of civilians, according to human rights groups.

“I don’t think anyone saw this coming,” Col. Richard Schmidt, the deputy commander of U.S. Special Operations Forces in Africa, said in a telephone interview from Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. “For this to crop up so quickly is concerning.”

Last week the United States formally designated the group, known locally as Al-Sunna wa Jama’a, as a global terrorist entity and imposed sanctions on its leader, named by American officials as Abu Yasir Hassan.

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1 posted on 03/15/2021 7:07:37 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria
The forever war expands to southern Africa.

How long before we start taking in refugees from there?

2 posted on 03/15/2021 7:10:30 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

We already have Teresa Heinz!


3 posted on 03/15/2021 7:25:33 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Salman

> The forever war expands to southern Africa. <

“He who defends everything defends nothing.”
Frederick the Great


4 posted on 03/15/2021 7:27:53 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Theoria

We shouldn’t be in Africa. There is no US interest there.
Maybe send the a C-5A load of machetes and tell them if they don’t wanna be moslem, they know what to do.


5 posted on 03/15/2021 7:29:10 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Theoria

Mozambique...right next to South Africa and Zimbabwe.


6 posted on 03/15/2021 8:00:46 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: All

When Shadow-pResident 0bama finds out about this, he will get Biden to order the Military to change sides and support ISIS, which is his creation.


7 posted on 03/15/2021 8:46:54 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Salman

“Team America, World Police!”


8 posted on 03/15/2021 8:53:02 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: Theoria
American Special Forces soldiers began training Mozambican troops this week?

How many times have we been down this rat hole?

9 posted on 03/15/2021 10:57:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I used to practice “Mozambique Drills” before arthritis reduced my pistol shooting days.


10 posted on 03/16/2021 12:18:07 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Theoria

In the history of our country.. what happens when we start training and funding some opposition group? Lemme think.
So what kind of deal does the biden, pelosi, Kennedy and or clinton kids have there?


11 posted on 03/16/2021 1:40:56 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Rhodesia was doomed when Mozambique and Angola were granted their independence by Portugal in 1975; whereas before they could get supplies from the Portuguese, and cooperated with them in their own fight against the Soviet-backed communists in all three places, they ended up with hostile black communist governments on both sides. Five years later, they gave it up.

All four (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique) are examples of the failure of “black self-determination”...


12 posted on 03/16/2021 3:25:13 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
All four (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique) are examples of the failure of “black self-determination”...
Maybe so. But still great successes for the ruling classes of Europe, the UK, and the USA.
13 posted on 03/16/2021 6:06:16 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

The CIA REALLY has them there for the CIA to get/control/profit off of/etc. the gas for the CIA and their contractors/etc. cohorts, and ALL other domestic and foreign enemies of America.


14 posted on 03/16/2021 6:43:20 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

More of the CIA/feds. etc. turning our military into a supposedly “glorified” police force (per the CIA). Instead of a war-fighting force... :(


15 posted on 03/16/2021 6:46:21 AM PDT by Bill of Rights FIRST
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To: kearnyirish2

Yep, and the story is the Soviets killed Somora Michel with that plane crash when he renounced Communism.


16 posted on 03/16/2021 6:46:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

17 posted on 03/16/2021 7:00:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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