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BREAKING: Large scale Al-Shabab attack on USNavy Base in Kenya, Base burning and occupied
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 74166975:MV80MjI4NTQ4Xzc2OTMzOTIxXzE3QzA0MzYy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 74628864:MV80MjI4NTQ4Xzc2OTI4MzkyXzhBQ0JFMDc0] [quote:SbX-01:MV80MjI4NTQ4Xzc2OTI4MTg4XzcwODFFQzQ1] [quote:Anonymous Coward 74628864:MV80MjI4NTQ4Xzc2OTI4MTUwX0NCRjQxQTNB] [quote:Riff-Raff:MV80MjI4NTQ4Xzc2OTI4MDY5Xzk4Qzc5QjZB] The timing of this attack is certainly coincidental, given the rhetoric coming from Iran, but odds are this is unrelated to the Iranian crisis. Al-Shabaab is a Sunni terrorist group. Iran is Shia. Is it possible they're working together against a common enemy? Yes, but we won't know that until later today at the earliest. [/quote] Unrelated? I don't think so. High up, these organizations probably answer to the same master, and to me this sounds like they are trying to get resources diverted to another area, or prevent resources from coming into an area, to spread things as thin as possible before launching their main retaliatory strike in Iraq or wherever they plan on responding to the killing of their hero. [/quote] Al-Shebab is linked to Al-Quida Both are Sunni Iran is Shiai They are pretty much enemies because of their interpretations of the Quaran, that said, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." so who the fuck knows. [/quote] "Iran has backed not only militant groups in its Persian Gulf neighborhood but also radicals and armed groups in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, by providing funds, weapons, training, and safe haven. Among the many groups that Tehran sponsors are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hamas, and Iraqi Shia militias. Other relationships are less well known. Consider, for example, Iran's ties to Somalia's al-Shabab. Last month, two Iranian nationals, Ahmad Mohammed and Sayed Mousavi, were arrested in Nairobi after one of the suspects led officials to 15 kilograms of chemicals hidden at a golf course in the port city of Mombasa.\17\ Kenyan authorities believe the men, suspected IRGC-Quds Force members, shipped more than 100 kilograms of powerful explosives into the country, most of which remains unrecovered. Last year, Kenya launched military operations into neighboring Somalia, targeting al-Shabab after a wave of kidnappings damaged Kenya's tourism industry. According to one senior antiterrorism officer, the two men`were planning to help al-Shabaab carry out revenge attacks in Kenya because of the Kenya Defence Forces' incursion inside Somalia.'' Al-Shabab's connection to Iran goes back at least as far as 2006, when a report from the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia indicated that the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), the precursor to al-Shabab, sent fighters to Lebanon to aid Hezbollah against the Israelis in return for Iranian and Hezbollah funding, arms, and training. According to the report: During mid-July 2006 ICU sent an approximately 720-person-strong military force to Lebanon to fight alongside Hezbollah against the Israeli military. . . . A number of the fighters also remained in Lebanon for advanced military training by Hezbollah. Furthermore, between 8 and 10 September 2006, about 25 Somalis returned to Somalia accompanied by five members of Hezbollah. . . . In exchange for the contribution of the Somali military force, Hezbollah arranged for additional support to be given to ICU by the Governments of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic, which was subsequently provided." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-112shrg76693/html/CHRG-112shrg76693.htm [/quote] None of what you posted connects Iran to al shabab..you fail. [/quote]
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Confirmed terrorist attack on Camp Simba in Kenya, NOT a US Naval base as first reported, but a joint US/Kenyan military base. Reports of a car bomb used to get through the gates & heavy gunfire. Casualties unknown at this time.
Information still coming in. Updates as needed.
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