After a long pause, the US drone war in Somalia appears to be back on. For the second time this week, the US launched an airstrike on Friday in Somalia against al-Shabaab.
Pentagon spokesperson Cindi King said the strike targeted fighters near Qeycad, Galmudug, Somalia. She said US forces were “conducting a remote advise and assist mission in support of designated Somali partner forces” and added that no US troops were on the ground for the operation.
The Pentagon offered no further details, but the US-backed Somali government claimed the strike “destroyed al Shabaab fighters and weapons with zero civilian casualties.” The US almost always claims no civilians are harmed by its operations in Somalia, but whenever journalists make it to the scene, they usually find that civilians were killed.
The US also bombed Somalia on Tuesday, which marked the first official US airstrikes in the country since President Biden came into office. Before Tuesday, the last strikes were carried out on January 19th, President Trump’s last full day in office.
After sending troops to Somalia, the Trump administration withdrew most soldiers from the country at the end of 2020. But most troops were redeployed elsewhere in East Africa, and neighboring Djibouti and Kenya host US military facilities where the drones that carry out airstrikes in Somalia are based.
SOMALIA…..a Country 99% of Americans haven’t got a clue where it is located !!
And if they did, would their opinion matter more? I never understood the logic behind the idea that if someone can’t locate a place on a map that they somehow can’t form an opinion as to whether we should be dropping bombs on that particular place. The cry should be that 99% of Americans haven’t got a clue as to why we are bombing countries regardless of whether they can point them out on a map or not.
I could not agree more!!
Other than enrich a few American contractors and arms manufacturers, this operation accomplished nothing. In other words, it was successful.
Control of over the entrance to the Gulf of Aden and the bottleneck into the Red Sea. Yemen is on one side and Somalia on the other.
“….but the US-backed Somali government claimed the strike “destroyed al
Shabaab fighters and weapons with zero civilian casualties.”…
the key operative word here i US-backed government
drone strikes are pretty much ipso facto war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
They have a nasty habit of taking out innocents, children.
Another “Black Hawk Down” in the making???
Let’s continue to make Somalia an even worse shit hole than before, so we can bring those poor Somalian people to to the U.S. to have a better life and join their relatives who are already here.
Just like Bush! Of course Biden voted for all of that in Congress.
But with Biden, everyone knows with certainty that he’s not running the show. He’s physically incapable. The Presidential power facade is too thin to deny now. Hopefully some will begin to wonder who IS running the show now and begin to think.
American pilots bombing a starving population is just up their street , i bet they wouldn`t be so keen if fighter jets or missilles were comming at them , nothing but COWARDS.
WHY, WHY..WHY, WHY…!!!!!!!!!WHY!!!!