09 April 2013 (00:16 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Jumada l-Ula 1434/20 Farvardin 1391/29 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“The United States is committed to being a long term partner in assisting the defense forces in Somalia to become professional military forces.”-Caitlin Hayden, National Security Council spokeswoman
U.S. President, and peace prize winner, Barack Obama has just authorized the increased shipment of military aid to Somalia, at the taxpayers expense of course.
The United States pushed for the end of a 1992 arms embargo against Somalia, just so we could provide them free weapons. Since 2007 U.S. taxpayers have been forced to fork over $133 million USD in military assistance to the pro-U.S., anti-Muslim government.
In January 2013 the United States officially recognized the anti-Muslim government of Somalia. It was at that time that Obama revealed that U.S. forces helped France in its failed attempt to rescue hostages in Somalia.
In June 2012, Somali military officer, Abdiwahab Mohamed Ali, told regional media sources that the U.S. had 390 personnel incountry, training anti-Muslim forces. The U.S. military has been avoiding using the term ‘Somalia’, instead referring to their secret Area of Operation (AO) as Horn of Africa.
It was recently revealed that two units of the Indiana National Guard were to deploy to Somalia, oh, I mean Horn of Africa. Reports said they had been training for two years for the deployment. Because the U.S. Army realized it’s much, much cheaper to use Regular Army (RA) soldiers instead of state militias, the Indiana deployment was canceled in favor of active Army units.
The ‘Horn of Africa’ (Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia) AO, as well as other African AOs, are considered part of the Operation Enduring Freedom mission in the Asian country of Afghanistan.
The U.S. Marine Corps has been training Ugandan troops for deployment to Somalia. The USMC is helping build up forces from African countries for the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa mission.
The U.S. has also made two other Horn of Africa countries, Djibouti and Ethiopia, home bases for U.S. drones (UAVs).