Trouble Ahead in East Africa

[rangerrebew]

June 29, 2016
Trouble Ahead in East Africa
By Ian Platz

In March of this year at a training camp 120 miles north of Mogadishu, more than a hundred Al-Shabaab fighters were massing in preparation for an attack against soldiers from the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) and the American military advisors embedded with them. As the fighters congregated and prepared, their camp was targeted by multiple American aircraft and destroyed in a barrage of missile fire. This attack, described by the Defense Department as a “Defensive Fires,” was one of the highest profile incidents in the United States’ ongoing support of stability operations in Somalia and a strong signal of escalating involvement in the nine yearlong peacekeeping operation. The growing American operational involvement in AMISOM is occurring as two of the largest troop contributing countries, Kenya and Uganda, openly question whether to continue supporting the peacekeeping operation or exit and leave a tremendous security gap in in the fragile country. Taken together, both factors could lead to a future where American involvement in Somalia greatly resembles Iraq and Syria, with the United States military carrying out operations rather than merely supporting them.

http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/06/29/trouble_ahead_in_east_africa_109499.html

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[Fishrrman]

North, South, East, West -- doesn't matter.

If it's "in Africa", there's trouble ahead.

Why is that?

[TomSea]

North, South, East, West -- doesn't matter.

If it's "in Africa", there's trouble ahead.

Why is that?

Yes, trouble is ahead in Africa; but...

If it is Islamic Trouble, then it is trouble anywhere.

It really is unbelievable that terrorists just keep and keep coming, the old joke use to be that in Iraq at least, "we had all the bad guys in one place" but no, this kind of stuff happened in Afghanistan 15 years ago. It just keeps going on and on.