Kenya’s government has urgently requestly that the United States assist them in their war and invasion of southern Somalia. Administration officials are considering providing intelligence and logistical support to Kenya’s struggling military.
Kenya invaded southern Somalia in mid-October with 2,000 soldiers and heavy artillery fire specifically aimed at the terrorist group al Shabaab, and supposedly in response to a series of kidnappings near the border between the two countries. With a U.S. drone war and covert operations on the ground in Somalia, some have questioned whether Washington supported the Kenyan attack.
Now Kenya has reportedly made an official request for help through the State Department. But the US was lending security support to Kenya as late as 2009 according to embassy cables released by WikiLeaks and the New York Times reported early this month that Kenyan military officials had said they were already receiving help from the US and France.
As McClatchy news service reports, a set of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks regarding an invasion into Somalia back in 2009 hint at possible U.S. involvement in the planning or logistics of the Kenyan invasion in 2011. “One particularly lively cable,” McClatchy reports, “depicts a senior U.S. official asking Kenya’s foreign minister if Kenyan troops shouldn’t consider trying to take Kismayo, the Shabab stronghold seaport, on their own or with the help of Somali militias, and promising the review of the plans by an American team. The tactics described in that cable match the plan Kenya appears to be trying to execute.”
The Kenyans have already received over $700 million in U.S. aid this year, much of it for military, counter-terrorism, and intelligence purposes. The violence in Somalia and surrounding regions is worsening a severe humanitarian situation, partly the result of a famine in Somalia.
With U.S. military intervention already well underway on almost every front in Somlia, an acquiescence to Kenyan requests for deeper involvement in the war on Somalia is likely.
this notion is misinformed for the kenya defence forces formulated their own military incursion strategy without the help of Washington. Kenya is capable of conducting a military offensive without the help of washington.
Yes, Kenyan Army is capable waging war as long as someone else is doing the heavy lifting.
Even your friends Ethiopia and Uganda are laughing at the notion that Kenya Army can occupy
Somalia.Read Wikileaks and find out that there is more information to events in East Africa than
the disjointed and contradictory propaganda by the Kenyan Govt:
"Museveni questioned Kenya's army bush-fighting credentials and the ideological commitment of its Somali proxies. He advised the West to pay and develop Transitional Federal Government (TFG) fighters rather than the much more expensive and less effective options of funding international peacekeepers and counter-piracy operations."
http://allafrica.com/stories/201109100011.html
It appears that Kenya wants to join the ranks of the mercenaries working in Somalia. It could not have chosen a worse time, the sponsor nations are no longer in position to throw huge amount of cash into
the conflict in Somalia and Museveni, has no intention of sharing the spoils.Kenya has sent envoys to Israel(slim chances of getting anything for free there),Arab nations(they are too busy stealing from their people) and Europe(they are broke).
What would make the Kenyans think that the U.S. would be interested in waging war. I mean, America stands for peace, doesn't it?
And inviting America into your country is equivalent to inviting them to invade and occupy it and steal all your scarce resources. Just ask Iraq and Afghanistan.
Keep America off your soil. Australia will find the truth of that in the near future!
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