US Africom Command said it launched an airstrike in Somalia on Friday against al-Shabaab in support of the US-backed Mogadishu-based government.
The strike took place near the central town of Galcad, about 162 miles northeast of Mogadishu, where al-Shabaab and the government were fighting on the ground. AFRICOM said the airstrike destroyed three vehicles and killed “approximately” 30 al-Shabaab fighters.
The command insisted no civilians were harmed based on “the remote location of the fighting.” But the Pentagon is notorious for undercounting or lying about civilian casualties, and US operations in Somalia are shrouded in secrecy as there is barely any media coverage of the war.
Also on Friday, al-Shabaab attacked a military base near the town, killing seven government soldiers. The Somali government said that it captured the town and claimed 100 al-Shabaab members were killed in the fighting.
Friday’s operation marked the first known US airstrike in Somalia in 2023. The US has ramped up its airstrikes in the country since President Biden ordered the deployment of up to 500 troops to Somalia last May.
AFRICOM claimed that Friday’s strike was carried out in “collective self-defense,” using language that allows action under President Biden’s counterterrorism policy. Under the rules, strikes outside of Syria and Iraq need White House approval unless they can be framed in self-defense of US or partner forces. Strikes could also be justified if they target a person on a kill list that’s approved by the president.
I read “killed in Somalia airstrike” and for a moment I imagined how hilarious it would be to put Somalis in fighter jets. Clicking the article, it turned out to be the U.S. again. African nations hire Westerners and Indians to handle their air force and artillery.
Somalia was in the hands of warlords who set up roadblocks to rob the people and assault women. Many of these made deals with the U.S. against al-Qaeda In the capital, the merchants financed the Islamic courts so they could arm men and free the country from the warlords. But as they gave shelter to al-Qaeda fighters from Iraq, the globalists paid Ethiopia to invade Somalia. This also made it possible for Korean fishing fleets to come and empty the waters outside Somalia, which made the fishermen turn to piracy. And so here we are with the ongoing fighting in Somalia.
And with a flood of Somalis going to Europe, especially Germany and Sweden, shouting about “we will take the women!” in videos and bragging about how much money they get. Even now most of them are unemployed, since these are Somalis, which is of course then blamed on “racism!” despite the fact they get every possible break and the millions of leftist voters apparently wanted them, and their crime rate is higher than for any other group. When local politicians declare that they’re going to hire more Somalis to show what good socialists they are, the ones forced to do the hiring always hire Somali women, so they won’t have Somali men in the office. No one can object to that since hiring women is also a sacred goal. For leftists like Obama, Hillary and Biden this was of course a great benefit, since Somalis in Western Europe meant more voters for the socialist parties, which means more votes for mass immigration. You’ll see Somali women dragging around five or more children, as they aren’t allowed to use birth control. Some of the younger ones stay unmarried to avoid that, or do their best to find non-Somali men to marry. Say, how about finding that in Ethiopia? Or Martha’s Vineyard.
In other news I read that the U.S. military cannot account for $220 billion. So it goes.
uncle sam sent a counter-agent there to count the bodies
“Strikes could also be justified if they target a person on a kill list that’s approved by the president.”
What a country.