This is an eye opening, brilliant piece of investigative reporting by C/razaq Terra, who provides an insight as to how the Fed. government mismanaged the fight against Al Shabaab, but even goes insofar as to suggest there being a seditious ploy to dismantle the Somali Army. His scoping and timeline are precise, if detailed with May 2023 being one of the deadliest, if not the worse. He hones in on where it all went wrong, as he compares the initial gains in the latter half of 2022 versus considerable losses in the first half of 2023, when it all went awry.
His conclusion:
a) There was a deliberate plan to sabotage the Somali Army whilst feeding Al Shabaab inside Army intel,
b) A seditious ploy to destroy the Somali Army.
Losses & Casualties:
Casualties on the Somali Army side incl. ATMIS:
Total deaths: 1,394
218 are of ATMIS majority of whom are of Uganda.
Wounded: 554
Majority of senior Somali Army officers had been killed.
Al Shabaab recaptured 85% of battle areas previously captured by the Somali Army.
Weaponry captured by Al Shabaab:
365 heavy armory / armoured vehicles
14 heavy lorries for freight and cargo
16 ambulances
8 water tankers
12 luxury army officer vehicles
150 armoured vehicles destroyed,
82 of them equipped with surveillance & telecom equipment, radars, signal jammers etc
45 equipped with GPS.
His conclusion:
a) There was a deliberate plan to sabotage the Somali Army whilst feeding Al Shabaab inside Army intel,
b) A seditious ploy to destroy the Somali Army.
Losses & Casualties:
Casualties on the Somali Army side incl. ATMIS:
Total deaths: 1,394
218 are of ATMIS majority of whom are of Uganda.
Wounded: 554
Majority of senior Somali Army officers had been killed.
Al Shabaab recaptured 85% of battle areas previously captured by the Somali Army.
Weaponry captured by Al Shabaab:
365 heavy armory / armoured vehicles
14 heavy lorries for freight and cargo
16 ambulances
8 water tankers
12 luxury army officer vehicles
150 armoured vehicles destroyed,
82 of them equipped with surveillance & telecom equipment, radars, signal jammers etc
45 equipped with GPS.
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