>American warplanes on Saturday struck a training camp in Somalia belonging to the Islamist militant group the Shabab, the Pentagon said, killing about 150 fighters who United States officials said were preparing an attack against American troops and their regional allies in East Africa.
>The strikes at a training facility called Camp Raso, about 120 miles north of Mogadishu, came as the Shabab fighters were nearing the end of “training for a large-scale attack” on forces belonging to the African Union in Somalia, officials said.
>They were bombed during what United States officials said they believed was a graduation ceremony, and the warplanes dropped a number of precision-guided bombs and missiles on them. “They were standing outdoors in formation,” one official said.
>The United States has a number of Special Operations forces in Somalia, and Defense Department officials said they were also believed to have been targets of the planned attacks.
>The Shabab fighters killed in the strikes were “nearing the completion of the end of their training,” said Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. He said the strikes “will degrade Al Shabab’s ability” to attack its neighbors and the West.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/world/africa/us-airstrikes-somalia.html
>>27368
You mean Obama did something right for once? I won't expect to see this covered in right wing media at all.
inb4 there was an American citizen in the collateral damage
>>27370
conservatives will get pissed like they always do when obama kills a bunch of muslims and it wasn't their idea
>>27377
>Implying Obama does any more than say "key whatevs m8" to his generals and teams that actually do the work.
>>27377
>conservatives will get pissed
But I'm not pissed in the slightest. This is good news.
>>27513
He's been doing that to ISIS for the last 2 and a half years, Anon. You're just not going to see anything about it on drudgereport.com.
inna lillahi wa inna aleyhi rajiun
when will the us finally leave muslim lands alone? and then they wonder themselves why muslims hate the us so much and why terrorist attacks happen.
>>27399
>implying that's a bad thing
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/nobody-knows-the-identity-of-the-150-people-killed-by-u-s-in-somalia-but-most-are-certain-they-deserved-it/
Apparently, nobody knows who those 150 people were, but the US government assures us they were bad.
>the Obama administration has formally re-defined the term “militant” to mean: “all military-age males in a strike zone” unless “there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.” In other words, the U.S. government presumptively regards all adult males it kills as “militants” unless evidence emerges that they were not.
>>27370
because bombings surely will win an ideological war.
>>27623
It's Somalia. The only way to fix the place would be genocide.
>>27626
Actually, the Somaliland region is pretty stable these days, and not because it was bombed to hell.
People do not become martyrs just for shits and giggles, they do it to find a purpose in life when they have no other perspectives.
>>27620
If its brown,FLUSH IT DOWN !
>>27629
>people seek out to kill other people because "no perspectives" and purpose
t. middle class white liberal living in safe,boring suburbs
>inb4 poverty brings crime meme,tho it has been disproven
meanwhile,this doesn't happen in Asia,South America,Ocenia and Europe,just West Asia and Africa
>>27632
>this doesn't happen in
>Asia
Philippines, Uzbekistan, India, etc. all have terrorist groups
Drug cartels in Philippines also take the role terrorist organisations would.
Recent example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pathankot_attack
>South America
drug cartels fill that role again, causing a huge number of deaths in gang-related violence.
>Oceania
not a lot of poor countries there innit
>Europe
(R)IRA (Ireland), (C)IRA (Ireland), Revolutionary Struggle (Greece)
Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5rDDvVJwU
Just because the American news doesn't tell you doesn't mean it's not happening, friendo.
>>27635
>Philippines, Uzbekistan, India, etc. all have terrorist groups
Madslimes
>Drug cartels in Philippines also take the role terrorist organisations would.
Drug cartels are everywhere in every country,then it means everyone has a problem
>drug cartels fill that role again, causing a huge number of deaths in gang-related violence.
Do you brand everything you like as a terror group?
Drug cartels kill each other,general law abiding pop has no problem
Ask any favelado,they will know someone from a "cartel" but the normal people not involved in that shit have nothing to fear
Specially drug consumers,you will get gutted for scaring them away or harming them,they're not allowed to do that
>not a lot of poor countries there innit
>Oceania
Poor people in : Aus, NZ ,none of them go do crime cause "muh poverty"
Poor countries :
Fiji
Indonesia
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Nauru
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
>(R)IRA (Ireland), (C)IRA (Ireland)
Has nothing to do with poverty,they are dead today
>Revolutionary Struggle (Greece)
literally who
>>27637
>Drug cartels kill each other,general law abiding pop has no problem
You cannot be this retarded
look at Honduras and El Salvador you dumbass, they murder people simply to demonstrate their power over them.
>Do you brand everything you like as a terror group?
No, Governments do that. For all intents and purposes, drug cartels participating in the "war against drugs" are de-facto terrorist organisations.
Also, nice list of island states with literally no population. And also, good job including Indonesia, in spite of recent terror attacks there.
"Mudslimes" is not an excuse when we're talking about ideology serving as a way for people to cling onto hopes when they have none otherwise, since Islamic extremism is an ideology.
>Has nothing to do with poverty,they are dead today
Had a lot to do with poverty back when they were more active, mate. It's why they got so many working-class adult men to join them.
>>27639
>You cannot be this retarded
Just brazilian
>Honduras and El Salvador
absolute savage shitholes,they will cut someone's head then go to church and fast on monday
> good job including Indonesia, in spite of recent terror attacks there.
done by mudslimes,other ethnicities don't do that there
>Islamism is extreme ideology
Islamism its a political,religious,economic and cultural ideology,not just a religion
>IRA
It had nothing to do with poverty,it had to do with eliberation from british colonialism and neocolonialism
>working class-adult men joining
Ireland had nothing but working class men back then
Corelation does not imply causation
You do not know or understand true levels of abject poverty,I have lived it and seen it in many countries,it doesn't result in crime
>>27641
>done by mudslimes,other ethnicities don't do that there
And you do realise that people can convert to Islam, right? And they actively do. A lot of the foreign fighters in Syria are converts.
>It had nothing to do with poverty,it had to do with eliberation from british colonialism and neocolonialism
which affected them sociopolitically in a way that resonated with mostly lower-class people due to poverty.
>Ireland had nothing but working class men back then
That would be a Marxist utopia, which you probably claim is not achievable, so you're most likely going to refute your own argument at this point.
>Corelation does not imply causation
That's something you should take to heart when you suggest genocide.
>You do not know or understand true levels of abject poverty,I have lived it and seen it in many countries,it doesn't result in crime
Poverty doesn't result in crime, but the lack of perspectives often caused by poverty does.
>>27644
>A lot of the foreign fighters in Syria are converts.
They're 2nd/3rd gen immigrants that live in the EU and have european citizenships,not ethnic europeans.
Cmon man,where do you live,have you any friends or have you ever been to any european country?
Maybe even worked in one?
>which affected them sociopolitically in a way that resonated with mostly lower-class people due to poverty.
That polisci one liners ,all theory.
Its simple,they were occupied by the british.They fought the british.
There is still a lot of poverty in Ireland today not addressed but they don't go do crimes,knackers don't count.
>but the lack of perspectives often caused by poverty does.
This is said by someone that never lived a couple of days without bread and drank only shitty well water.
Or eating fish for years till the absolute image makes you sick.
Westerners have no idea about poverty and theorize it brings crime,its not true and it has been debunked.
>>27620
>The US presumptively regards all adult males in a strike zone as militants
Sounds about right. I would assume a militant training camp would be filled with militants.
And when the enemy is a cowardly group that uses their muslim neighbors as human sheilds, hiding themselves amongst the crowd to fight brave soldiers who proudly display their allegiance with a uniform, civilian casualties are going to happen.
>>27630
You know Obama is brown, right?
