Sad day for Salafis: 150 Al Shabab SLAUGHTERED by US drone

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U.S. drone strike kills more than 150 at Al Shabab training camp in Somalia
The Pentagon says the fighters were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, likely against African or U.S. personnel.
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A Hellfire missile hangs from a U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), at a secret air base in January. The Pentagon says it has been watching the Al Shabab training camp in Somalia for weeks.

Published on Mar 07 2016
Lolita C. BaldorTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon says a U.S. drone strike on Saturday struck a training camp for Al Shabab fighters in Somalia who were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, likely against African or U.S. personnel.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, says the strike hit Raso Camp, killing more than 150 fighters. He says the U.S. was watching the camp for weeks. He says it appeared that the training was ending and the operational phase of a suspected attack was about to start.

Davis says the training camp, about 190 kilometres north of Mogadishu, was destroyed.

The Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab has been linked to a number of attacks, including the detonation of a bomb aboard a commercial passenger jet last month that forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu.
 

Thegoodshepherd

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5000 was at their peak, I would say closer to the 2-3K range by now. Alshabab is somewhat amorphous because you have clan militias that play both sides of the game, and those as a single group probably outnumber "core" Alshabab. 3000 men may seem too small a force, but keep in mind that the Alshabab in Galgala were never more than 400 men at their peak. Terror is a very powerful thing.
 
5000 was at their peak, I would say closer to the 2-3K range by now. Alshabab is somewhat amorphous because you have clan militias that play both sides of the game, and those as a single group probably outnumber "core" Alshabab. 3000 men may seem too small a force, but keep in mind that the Alshabab in Galgala were never more than 400 men at their peak. Terror is a very powerful thing.

Interesting. Which gobol do you think has the most?
 

Odeg

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I dont trust what Pentagons claims and this story is movie-like and most likely for domestic consumption. Waiting for more sources.
 

Thegoodshepherd

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Interesting. Which gobol do you think has the most?

Lower Shabelle without a doubt. The people there are almost all Alshabab supporters because they know what life would be like without Alshabab. The boys from Guriceel would grab all the land, and then proceed to have a feudal system in that state.

Tough situation there, either a terror group, or involuntary servitude.
:francis:
 
it doesnt matter.clans that openly support alshabab have declared a war against hawiye,they will be evicted from their land they will have condemned themselves to hawiye anger
 
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