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US will build up to 5 Somali army bases in bid to combat al Qaeda-linked extremists
Fox News ^ | Feb 15, 2024

Posted on 02/15/2024 12:48:48 PM PST by McGruff

The U.S. will build up to five military bases for the Somali army in a project that seeks to bolster the Somalian national army's capabilities amid ongoing threats from an extremist group.

Somalia’s defense minister and the U.S. charge d’affaires signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.

The agreement comes at a time when the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, known as ATMIS, is scaling back its presence in Somalia.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; bases; somalia
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1 posted on 02/15/2024 12:48:48 PM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

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2 posted on 02/15/2024 12:52:07 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: McGruff

How many billions will this cost the U.S. taxpayers?


3 posted on 02/15/2024 12:52:17 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: McGruff

THIS is the DC deep-state’s border

along with Ukraine, Syria, Taiwan, etc...


4 posted on 02/15/2024 12:53:59 PM PST by PGR88
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To: McGruff

Building five military bases in Somalia.

Meanwhile, the Southern border is wide open...


5 posted on 02/15/2024 12:55:07 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: McGruff

Why is the US paying to build bases in Somalia?


6 posted on 02/15/2024 12:56:19 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: McGruff

Building bases for future use by moslem terrorists.


7 posted on 02/15/2024 12:57:35 PM PST by 13foxtrot
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To: McGruff

Somalia? Here we go again.


8 posted on 02/15/2024 12:57:59 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: McGruff

If the western nations continue to think fending off Islamic terrorists in Africa is in their interest, they need to form something akin to the former French Foreign Legion, where a core of western officers have soldiers that come from participating African nations.

However, the possible paticipating African nations are the ones now seeking for the African Union peacekeeping force to pull out of Somalia. Maybe that later part is in fact happening BECAUSE the west, the U.S., is upping its own efforts!!!!!!


9 posted on 02/15/2024 12:58:08 PM PST by Wuli
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To: McGruff

Nuke that s hole. It’s a lot cheaper than building army bases and throwing soldiers in front of Somalis.


10 posted on 02/15/2024 12:59:17 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: McGruff

Then we’ll give them fully stocked to china.


11 posted on 02/15/2024 12:59:30 PM PST by Track9 (Matches for sale.. get your matches!)
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To: McGruff

i’m sooo sick of this sh!t


12 posted on 02/15/2024 12:59:33 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: McGruff

Better idea would be to send 25,000 US troops and advisors and $50 billion in aid attached to a Ukraine bill in Congress.

Notice Biden is still kissing up to Muslims for votes.

Wikipedia:
According to the federal Ministry of Religious Affairs, more than 99 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim.


13 posted on 02/15/2024 1:01:23 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: McGruff

Bravo. They colonize us, we colonized them. Right?


14 posted on 02/15/2024 1:01:59 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: McGruff

Dems/CIA 1970’s with Somalia and Ethiopia revisited?


15 posted on 02/15/2024 1:03:16 PM PST by Oystir
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To: McGruff

Staffed by whom?

Where is R&R, Haiti?


16 posted on 02/15/2024 1:04:03 PM PST by EEGator
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To: McGruff

Muslim extremists have nothing to do with our building bases there:

https://theconversation.com/somalilands-oil-find-could-reset-the-regional-balance-heres-how-197995


17 posted on 02/15/2024 1:08:19 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Now you see the real reason America is in Somalia. It’s to control the shipping lanes out of the Red Sea. It was never a humanitarian mission under Clinton. We have been killing Somalians since 1993 and we keep killing them daily. We are uch a beneficent empire.


18 posted on 02/15/2024 1:11:05 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: everyone

The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—against the forces of the Somali National Alliance (SNA) and armed irregular citizens of south Mogadishu.

19 posted on 02/15/2024 1:12:34 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Well then, if the Dimbulbcrats managed to keep cheating and lying and stay in power, we can start the countown to our cutting and running from these bases as soon as the last one is completed. The enemy can get lots of good stuff, and crap filled pronoun books.


20 posted on 02/15/2024 1:13:16 PM PST by Da Coyote
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