U.S. ‘Advisors’ assist in joint Somali/African Union Commando raid in southern Somalia SOFREP Original Content
By Derek Gannon 01.13.2017#World News Email Share Tweet
Kismayo, Somalia – U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed on Monday that elements of its command participated in a joint counter-terrorism operation against an al-Qaeda linked terrorist group known as Harakat al-Shabaab. The operation, which was executed on January 7th, included an unknown number of U.S. military advisors which accompanied Somali National Army troops along with Ugandan commandos assigned to the United Nations peacekeeping mission, the African Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM.
The raid occurred in and around the villages of Bula-Gaduud near the southern Somalia port city of Kismayo. The area in and around Kismayo is historically been known as a ‘hotbed’ of al-Shabaab activity with the terror group recently retaking majority control over the towns and villages within the region. The joint raid was described as a ‘counter-terrorism operation’ with the intent of ‘disturbing’ al-Shabaab’s influence within the region and staunching the group’s recent uptick in terror attacks Somalia has seen in recent months.
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