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2025-12-20 Africa Horn

Fear of Al-Shabaab attacks grows after militants captured Nuur-Dugle

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Posted by badanov 2025-12-20 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1838 views ] Top
File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)

1 I looked at an aerial view of Nuur-Dugle.

It does have a road, a few buildings and an animal corral or two.

I've seen larger sheep stations and Amish farms.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-12-20 07:58|| 2025-12-20 07:58|| Front Page Top

2 Somebody remind me again what winning this whack-a-mole defense money-pit looks like?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-12-20 13:03|| 2025-12-20 13:03|| Front Page Top

3 Losing the Horn of Africa means giving it to the Chinese.
Where do these backwater waddies get their arms, transport and provisions? I expect not Iran.

The many 'flavors' of muhammadism along the Red Sea will never align. Much like with the Panama canal China will promise prosperity for the Red Sea border states when they offer operational control while assuring political agnosticism.

China ocean transport will then circumnavigate the globe via temperate waters.
Why would China want to fragment Russia when the new silk road is afloat?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-12-20 18:25|| 2025-12-20 18:25|| Front Page Top

4 Somalia has been getting stuff from Turkey and Egypt, Skidmark. Turkey likes swanning around as Elder Brother, while Egypt thinks it’s putting one over on Ethiopia somehow.

Where either gets the funds for it is beyond me — aren’t both dependent on Gulf Oil charity?

Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-20 19:18|| 2025-12-20 19:18|| Front Page Top

5 Turkey has, reportedly, about 1000 troops in Somalia.

Egypt has about the same number but intends to increase its deployment.

As far as casualties, neither Turkey nor Egypt is very forthcoming on how many of their troops were killed or injured.

We do know that Drones and manned aircraft of Turkey have inflicted a fair number of casualties, both on Al Shabaab and civilians. Numbers are uncertain.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-12-20 19:31|| 2025-12-20 19:31|| Front Page Top

6 Was it the Danab unit that Turkey trained? They trained some military group over there. Also, if I recall correctly, a police unit…

Posted by trailing wife 2025-12-20 22:06|| 2025-12-20 22:06|| Front Page Top

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