Here is a prediction: the British troops will fail in their endeavor to “smash” these jihad groups, or to teach the Somalis to do so. They will consistently underestimate the support these groups have among the Somali people, and will engage in numerous hearts-and-minds initiatives that will be abysmal failures.
Nor will this do a single thing to curb jihad activity in Britain itself.
“EXCLUSIVE: Elite Brit terror troops to be sent to Somalia to smash Al-Shabab and Islamic State,” by Chris Hughes, Mirror, October 29, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
Hundreds of elite British troops are preparing to be sent to Somalia within months to help fight growing terrorist networks.
Infantry forces will step up a training mission to teach Somali special forces how to smash the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab and Islamic State threat.
British officers from an elite Army unit are already in the region making plans for the mission which is expected to launch in late Spring 2022.
It comes in the wake of the death of Tory MP David Amess, 69, who was stabbed to death in an alleged terrorist attack during his constituency surgery.
British man Ali Harbi Ali, 25, whose family are originally from Somalia, has been charged with murder after being arrested at the scene of the killing on October 15.
Sources have told the Mirror the deployment of more troops to Somalia was under discussion before the Amess death….
US forces have also been in Somalia for some years helping local troops battle al-Shabab, which means the “youth.”
The heavily-armed al-Shabab group, linked to al-Qaeda, has spread its influence into neighbouring countries across East Africa.
It is well-funded by kidnappings, robberies, extortion and there is also a suspicion it has received backing from corrupt officials in Eritrea.
The group has also attacked in Kampala, Uganda in 2010, killing 74 and in a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall in 2013, killing 67.
Islamic State is also on the rise in the region.
spiro says
What could possible
Go wrong
Ade Fegan says
Ground hog day !
born saturday says
meanwhile turkey is flying in somalian jihadis to turkey for free from where they are flooding europe to islamize it all the way up to uk… what is the uk doing about that??? what is the uk doing about dangerous islamic extremists who miracoulously come out of prizon to spread jihad within the uk???
Wellington says
Growing terrorist networks?
Memo to the UK and all Western nations: Islam has been one gigantic terrorist network from its inception in the 7th century AD. Minus terrorism, Islam would have died out long ago. It is Islam’s lifeblood.
Take it from here. If one refuses, they’re either manifesting their ignorance or their deceitfulness. No third possibility.
My God, what the Hell has happened to the UK and the West in general? Functioning in idiot mode right now and led by doofuses aplenty, including BoJo and Dementia Joe.
Infidel says
They should first practice on Ilhan Omar, and if and after they succeed w/ her, they should move on to Somalia
Ray Jarman says
+1
Ray Jarman says
I wonder if the UK and others had sent people into NATZI Germany and Mussolini’s Italy prior to WWII would have achieved anything other than the death of those sent on the impossible mission? The UK and the French should unite and send in soldiers with the mission of destroying all fragments of Al Shabab as well as anyone aiding and abetting the scum. I have no doubt that the Ugandan and Somali governments know who the terrorist slugs are.
PMK says
What good would sending UK and French troops into Somalia accomplish? Even if they did destroy “all fragments of Al Shabab”, the problem will not go away. The idea that Muslim leaders will ‘smash terrorists’ is laughable. As Wellington points out, Islam has been spread and enriched by terror and brute force. So you destroy one group and another rises to take its place.
The UK, France and most of the Western world need to look at what Muslims are doing in the West, not in Somalia. In fact, Somalia (and many other Muslim countries) should be isolated from the West. None of its people (except the fraction of a fraction who are not Muslim) should even be allowed to travel to the West, let alone settle here.
Don’t waste valuable resources ‘training’ these people. We tried that in Iraq and Afghanistan. What good did it do?
Kenneth P Lord says
Ditto! Nothing good comes out of Somalia.
GreekEmpress says
The UK wants its own version of Afghanistan???
Keith O says
As piss poor and pathetic as the Brit government is, the troops still have a bit to prove to themselves after what happened in the Ghan.
Me thinks the Brit squadies will do a little bit more than “teach”.
I know a few Brit soldiers and they, despite what their government wants, are after blood.
GFMUCCI says
The West has something against “lessons learned.”
libertyORdeath says
Come on Mr. Spencer, this type of training went so well in Afghanistan and Iraq.
gravenimage says
UK sending elite troops to Somalia to teach Somalis how to ‘smash’ jihad groups
…………….
Well, *this* is deeply foolish.
What makes Britain think that Somalia is actually opposed to Jihad?
sidney penny says
Did the Americans not do the same thing in Afganistan and fail?
Dhimmi says
Of course they can’t believe alshabab represents a significant part of the population because it would be the bitter truth of their failed ideology of the cosmopolitans who lead them. In the end like in every other such case, it will bring more migrants and more decline and terror for Britain