The “peacekeepers” are clearly no match for the warriors of jihad.
“Al-Shabab killed 54 Ugandan soldiers in Somalia, says Museveni,” Al Jazeera, June 4, 2023:
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced the deaths of 54 Ugandan soldiers in an al-Shabab attack on a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
Museveni’s statement on Saturday comes a week after al-Shabab fighters stormed the base in Bulamarer, 130 kilometres (80 miles) southwest of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
The armed group claimed it carried out suicide bomb attacks on May 26 and killed 137 soldiers….
Al-Shabab has been fighting since 2006 to replace Somalia’s Western-backed government with its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law….
PRCS says
1. ““Our soldiers demonstrated remarkable resilience and reorganised themselves, resulting in the recapture of the base by Tuesday,” the president said.”
Resilience in recapturing a base that would most likely not have been required if the armed forces there had been prepared for the constant possibility of an attack a week earlier.
2. Given the all-too-common oxymoronic notion that Allah’s best slaves are extremists who’ve perverted THE religion of peace, how refreshing it is to note Al Jazeera’s statement that Al-Shabaab’s goal “is to replace Somalia’s Western-backed government with its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Keys says
The “best of people” of “the religion of peace” murder 54 African Union peacekeepers!
James R Reese says
Not the first time Ugandans have been overrun and massacred at one of their camps. Their lack of security and defensive preparations is legendary. They don’t prepare defensive positions, you can step over their walls and barbed wire, and the Ugandans have no fire discipline.