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Biden approves deployment of US ground forces in Somalia
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/biden-military-somalia.html ^

Posted on 05/16/2022 7:55:29 AM PDT by Lurch Addams

President Biden has signed an order authorizing the military to once again deploy hundreds of Special Operations forces inside Somalia — largely reversing the decision by President Donald J. Trump to withdraw nearly all 700 ground troops who had been stationed there, according to four officials familiar with the matter.

In addition, Mr. Biden has approved a Pentagon request for standing authority to target about a dozen suspected leaders of Al Shabab, the Somali terrorist group that is affiliated with Al Qaeda, three of the officials said. Since Mr. Biden took office, airstrikes have largely been limited to those meant to defend partner forces facing an immediate threat.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Iran is involved there, for one, so whatever interests them so much, will of course be of interest to us.


81 posted on 05/16/2022 11:50:42 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Something similar to Niger?


82 posted on 05/16/2022 11:56:32 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Way behind the curve in buying governments?


83 posted on 05/16/2022 11:59:58 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Lurch Addams

Notice the press will be very quiet about this since al Shabab is an ally of Iran and has undertaken attacks on US and Israelis in Kenya, etc. Kerry and Obama and others are still hoping the Biden admin gets another Iran Deal so all things related to Iran’s proxy terrorists have to be downplayed.


84 posted on 05/16/2022 12:04:37 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Lurch Addams

The Dems are the same people who kept insisting al Qaeda and Iran don’t get along, even though it is well known that Iran gets along just fine with anyone who shares the same enemies.


85 posted on 05/16/2022 12:07:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Last October, a UK-born son of Somali refugees who had been radicalized by al Shabaab attacked a British official with a knife, likely because of the man’s support of Israel, Iran’s number 2 opponent after the US.


86 posted on 05/16/2022 12:16:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

IIRC, the official was UK MP Sir David Amess- he was stabbed to death.

More recently, this past April, al Shabab threatened to assassinate both Biden and Trump.


87 posted on 05/16/2022 12:22:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Lurch Addams

Meanwhile our southern border resembles a Boston Marathon of millions entering illegally.

Somalia? What an effing joke.


88 posted on 05/16/2022 12:26:18 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Lurch Addams

Where is the “no blood for oil” crowd? Although with Somalia I suppose the chant would be “no blood for nothin’.”


89 posted on 05/16/2022 12:29:23 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Texas resident

Either HE won’t last the rest of his term in office, or WE won’t…..


90 posted on 05/16/2022 1:39:49 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Deo volente

Wall Street Journal used to do that to. Maybe they still do, I haven’t read it in years.


91 posted on 05/16/2022 1:46:26 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: caww

If Putin hurries, he can nuke Somalia before our troops arrive, but why should he do us any favors?


92 posted on 05/16/2022 1:48:52 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Lurch Addams

Bidet looking to be immortalized in “Blackhawk Down II”?


93 posted on 05/16/2022 1:49:28 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Pajamajan

The Draft? Don’t put it past him.
Thank God I’m almost 68….


94 posted on 05/16/2022 1:51:28 PM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Lurch Addams

Having known deployed there, I can’t speak.

Put BU and athe Witch on an unarmed rotary wing of our choice.


95 posted on 05/16/2022 1:52:36 PM PDT by combat_boots (Nothing is built. Nothing is back. Nothing is better.)
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To: Robert DeLong

I find it interesting that the NYT refers to him as Mr. Biden, instead of President Biden. 🙂
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Wonder when it will refer to him as the criminal anti-American traitor that half the country thinks he is?


96 posted on 05/16/2022 2:51:21 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (They confirm it everyday: Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic.)
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To: laplata
It’s The Military Industrial Complex that President Eisenhower warned us about.

I wrote that off as a conspiracy theory until we bailed out of Afghanistan. Now it's clear we can't win a war because they won't let us. We saw that in Vietnam, and we saw it again in Afghanistan. They just drag the wars out and make their profits until we're tired of it and want out. The fact that we were humiliated on the world stage and thousands of our troops died meant nothing to them.

97 posted on 05/16/2022 2:52:42 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: cuban leaf

When democrats have the reigns [reins], we just can’t keep our noses out of other countries’ business.
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Well and truly said!


98 posted on 05/16/2022 2:54:32 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (They confirm it everyday: Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
Now it's clear we can't win a war because they won't let us.

I've said it here for years: the only enemy they would let our military completely destroy, is us.

99 posted on 05/16/2022 2:57:38 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Biden, Democrats, Woke Generals, and Neo-Con War Mongers don’t give a damn about our soldiers’ lives and limbs.
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Of course not. You’re referring to the cabal of our most dangerous internal enemies, MORE dangerous than any foreign enemy!


100 posted on 05/16/2022 3:01:28 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (They confirm it everyday: Democrat politicians and voters are dangerously psychotic.)
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