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Al Shabaab Claims It Destroyed 7 Aircraft Used By US Forces In Attack In Kenya

Al Shabaab on Sunday claimed that it destroyed seven aircraft and three vehicles in military base in Kenya’s Lamu county.

New Delhi, News Nation Bureau | Updated : 05 January 2020, 06:15 PM

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Al Shabaab on Sunday claimed it destroyed seven aircraft and three vehicles in military base in Kenya’s Lamu county. The aircraft and vehicles were reportedly used by American and Kenyan forces. The terrorist group in a statement said that the attack on US troops was launched at dawn and their fighters engaged in a close-quarters combat with them for several hours.

Al Shabaab is a jihadist fundamental group which mainly operates in East Africa.

However, Kenya’s military too issued a statement saying that it killed at least four terrorists which followed Al Shabaab’s attack on an an airstrip located near a US military base, CNN reports.

The United States Africa Command took to Twitter to confirm the attack on Manda Bay Airfield. It added that it is monitoring the situation.


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U.S. Africa Command acknowledges there was an attack at Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya and is monitoring the situation. Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the incident. As facts and details emerge, we will provide an update.https://twitter.com/USAfricaCommand
Moreover, Al Shabaab has waged an insurgency against the West-backed Somalian government and Kenya also has sent its troops after cross-border attacks and kidnappings became frequent. The Kenyan forces support the Somalian government which stands on a shaky ground against the fundamentalist terrorist group.

Source: https://www.newsnation.in/world/new...d-by-us-forces-in-attack-in-kenya-249846.html
 
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Holy shit -- what you guys think the economic loss is considering the fixed wing aircraft and other assets gone?
 
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Just proves that al shabab is a psy op. All these 'attacks' on 'US bases' with no casualties. Ameridumbs are being led to believe that salafist al shabab is Iran proxy :lol:
 
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1 Yankee soldier
2 Yankee contractors
A couple more seriously injured

Shit load of U.S assets destroyed including helicopters and a plane

If nothing more it something to rub into the faces of dum dum red necks, I'm off to troll:enjoy:
 
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Al-Shabaab always exaggerates the number of killed and wounded in their attacks. But there were some casualties even though it is much smaller than what that terrorist group claimed.


It appears I was wrong. The timing of it was suspicious.

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I tell you what...not a fan of al shabab but this was a real operation. Well planned, brilliantly executed, casualties not just in lives but in $$$$ and photos taken for propaganda. Wonderful assymetric operation. I guess the know it alls at the pentagon didn't see this one coming huh? I thought their super duper intelligence, surveillance, torture, informant, bribery operations could predict every coming attack which licenses preemptive attacks?
 
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Al Shabaab and Isis are the same sh*t. They were raised with the same evil for same purpose...
 
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Someone effed up! The airstrip had basically civvy security if you can imagine that and isn't actually on the base. No razor wire,dogs or electric fence.



Camp Simba,established 2004 is not actually within KN Manda Bay base.

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Manda Bay's origins tell you everything you need to know about why the
Americans showed up here. The Kenyan navy built the base in 1992, in
response to the collapse of the Siad Barre dictatorship in Somalia the
year before, right about the time U.S. marines were stepping off their
amphibious ships and entering Mogadishu. Kenya's predominantly Muslim
northern coastal area is so remote that it was simply easier to send
military supplies to its border with Somalia along the coast using naval
vessels than to head up inland by vehicles, as the sandy roads are
impassable in the rainy season.

1 US Dash 8,avgas fuel depot and I think a KAF 208 ISR Cessna were destroyed.
 

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