Somalia: Jihadists attack US Baledogle training base - Happening now, 30th September

Jihadists attack US training base in Somalia

Al-Shabab militants blast through gates and send in fighters before reportedly being pushed back.

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Jihadists have attacked a military base where US soldiers train commandos in Somalia.
Local residents reported heavy blasts and gunfire at Baledogle airport in the southern Lower Shabelle region.
The al-Shabab militant group said it had carried out the attack, using a car bomb to blast through the gates before sending its fighters inside.
Military officials say the jihadists were repulsed without breaching the perimeter fence.
No casualties were reported among the Somali military

In a statement, US Ambassador Donald Yamamoto praised the Somali military for their "alertness and swift response".
"This attack yet again demonstrates al-Shabab violently opposes progress towards peace and prosperity in Somalia," he said.
The US remained committed to building "a stronger and prosperous Somalia that offers a brighter future for its people".

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Al-Shabab said in a statement it had launched the raid and that it was ongoing.
"After breaching the perimeters of the heavily fortified base, the mujahideen [holy warriors] stormed the military complex, engaging the crusaders in an intense firefight."
The base, about 100km (60 miles) west of the capital Mogadishu, is said to house US special forces, Somali special forces and Ugandan peacekeepers. It is used as a launch site for US drones as well as being a training centre.
Separately, an Italian military convoy was hit by an explosion in Mogadishu itself, Italy's defence ministry said. No casualties have as yet been reported in this attack.

The US has sharply increased its air strikes against al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, since President Donald Trump took power.
Officials in Somalia say the group has increased its attacks in Mogadishu as retaliation for the air strikes.
BBC Africa editor Mary Harper says the fact that al-Shabab was able to hit two foreign targets on the same day shows it is a co-ordinated force with excellent intelligence.
The US state department says al-Shabab retains control over large parts of the country and has the ability to carry out high-profile attacks using suicide bombers, explosive devices, mortars and small arms.

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US Somali operation shrouded in secrecy
By Mary Harper, BBC World Service Africa editor
The fact that al-Shabab managed to attack two foreign targets in a single day proves its enduring power, 13 years after it came into existence. It shows it is a well-coordinated force, with a sophisticated intelligence network.
The assault on the US military training base at Baledogle airport will be an embarrassment to the Americans, who have stepped up drone attacks on al-Shabab since Donald Trump became president.
The US military is also active on the ground in Somalia, training an elite group of Somali commandos known as The Shield and taking part in special operations, always shrouded in secrecy.
Al-Shabab seems impervious to the multitude of forces ranged against it, from thousands of African Union troops, to Western and other foreign special forces, to a large if fractured Somali army.
The group does far more than stage attacks on its enemies. It imposes fines and taxes, even in government-controlled areas. It provides effective - if brutal - judicial services, which are as popular with those living outside the areas it controls as those inside them.
It is essentially a governing force, and is likely to remain so until the Somali government and its allies form a credible, functioning alternative.
Read more from Mary:Somalia's network of Islamist spies

 

[Cedric_Eff]

Black Hawk Down 2: Electric Boogaloo?

 

[TFT-A9]

Al-Shabaab was tired of people forgetting it existed I suppose.

 

[EasyPeasy]

Good, stupid doilem Americunts thinking their the worlds police.

 

[CatharticShitHead]

I know nothing about Al Shabbab or Somalia. But I'm glad no one but the attackers were killed.

 

[break these cuffs]

Good, stupid doilem Americunts thinking their the worlds police.

Maybe if Eurocucks hadn't dumped your defense budgets into welfare after the Cold War, we wouldn't be the only ones keeping China and Russia in check. You do realize that we're in Africa not because of hadjis, but because China has been making the entire continent into their colony for the last 50 years and we're trying to get the apes to align with the West right?

 

[BOONES]

72 virgins? Are we gonna be teleported to towelhead heaven?

 

[Jeffrey Epstein]

What kind of progress have we really made there? What are we trying to do there? Have we helped it become less shitty yet?

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Yet more proof that Islam is a scourge on humanity, and adherents should be exterminated like vermin.

 

[CaesarCzech]

And suddenly the WACIST avenue of attack during impeachment got blocked for the moment.

 

[break these cuffs]

What kind of progress have we really made there? What are we trying to do there? Have we helped it become less shitty yet?

The Africa plan is still very much in it's infancy. Right now it's mostly growing AFRICOM, Africa Command, and establishing bases across the continet to ostensibly combat their growing Islamic terrorism problem. Africa is the new Middle East, except with 800M Muslims instead of 400M of them and they're in jungles and deserts instead of just deserts. The next century is going to be a fucking blast.

The Chinese have manly been doing infrastructure jobs to allow the governments, and their companies, to extract natural resources in exchanges for things like port leases, naval basing rights, and claims on said resources. They have decades on us as far as getting in with these governments.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

And Somalia still remains one of the shittiest countries in the world.

 

[EasyPeasy]

Maybe if Eurocucks hadn't dumped your defense budgets into welfare after the Cold War, we wouldn't be the only ones keeping China and Russia in check. You do realize that we're in Africa not because of hadjis, but because China has been making the entire continent into their colony for the last 50 years and we're trying to get the apes to align with the West right?

Your typical neo-Conservative BS is getting old, Russia and China are far greater countries than USA will ever be. Also Africa is not the only region where the Chinese have been doing this, China purchased an area the size of Belgium in Ukraine for food production. Chinese also have large farm holdings in South America, Australia and even the United States.

 

[break these cuffs]

Your typical neo-Conservative BS is getting old, Russia and China are far greater countries than USA will ever be. Also Africa is not the only region where the Chinese have been doing this, China purchased an area the size of Belgium in Ukraine for food production. Chinese also have large farm holdings in South America, Australia and even the United States.

Bootlicking your socialist government is no longer enough for your average bong that you have to suck chink dick now?

 

[Antipathy]

Maybe if Eurocucks hadn't dumped your defense budgets into welfare after the Cold War, we wouldn't be the only ones keeping China and Russia in check. You do realize that we're in Africa not because of hadjis, but because China has been making the entire continent into their colony for the last 50 years and we're trying to get the apes to align with the West right?

>The US keeping China and Russia in check

Slapping weak sanctions on Russia and doing jack shit to challenge China =/= "Keeping them in check"

 

[break these cuffs]

>The US keeping China and Russia in check

Slapping weak sanctions on Russia and doing jack shit to challenge China =/= "Keeping them in check"

Russia's efforts in Syria have bled their military dry and China doesn't own all of the South China Sea. It's better than giving muslims welfare checks which is all Europe has been doing.

>your efforts are shit
>what are you doing?
>nothing

 

[Super-Chevy454]

And Somalia still remains one of the shittiest countries in the world.

To think there was a time when Somalia wasn't one of the shittiest countries. It was like Rhodesia before it turned into Zimbabwe.

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[Antipathy]

Russia's efforts in Syria have bled their military dry and China doesn't own all of the South China Sea. It's better than giving muslims welfare checks which is all Europe has been doing.

>your efforts are shit
>what are you doing?
>nothing

Just saying that a weak position isn't something to brag about. In the kingdom of the blind, the guy with half an eye is a condescending asshole, but isn't much better off anyway.

 

[EasyPeasy]

Bootlicking your socialist government is no longer enough for your average bong that you have to suck chink dick now?

Bong? I am not British. I am English as in born in England.
I don't even us my UK passport anymore (I think it expired now anyway), I use my Polish or Irish passport because Britain is a joke.
If someone says they are British here, that means they are an immigrant and not born here.

 

[break these cuffs]

Just saying that a weak position isn't something to brag about. In the kingdom of the blind, the guy with half an eye is a condescending asshole, but isn't much better off anyway.

I will await for you to take the lead and show us how it's done. Uniting Europe in a caliphate doesn't count. I am non-interventionist by nature, but there is literally nobody else in the world to do this shit.

Bong? I am not British. I am English as in born in England.
I don't even us my UK passport anymore (I think it expired now anyway), I use my Polish or Irish passport because Britain is a joke.
If someone says they are British here, that means they are an immigrant and not born here.

Please tell me you stay in Bongland rather than moving away for the gibs. That would be amazing.