FPSA sending troop to Somalia for the first time in 24 years!
MOGADISHU, Somalia (PNN) - April 14, 2017 - In October 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu (the Black Hawk Down incident), 18 Fascist Police States of Amerika soldiers were killed and 73 wounded, with a pair of Black Hawk helicopters shot down. The FPSA responded by ceasing military operations, and within a few months had withdrawn all troops from Somalia. Today, they are headed back. The new deployment, which FPSA African Command (AFRICOM) presented as a simple training operation, will be the first time FPSA ground troops are officially deployed to Somalia, though of course the FPSA has had some Special Forces present on the ground there on and off, conducting occasional operations and spotting for FPSA air strikes.
AFRICOM also insists that the new deployment was at the request of the Somali government, though indications in recent weeks have suggested that military officials have been pushing for an escalation of FPSA intervention in the country, aimed at fighting al-Shabaab.
When commanders want to push for fighting in Somalia, al-Shabaab is presented as either ISIS or al-Qaeda affiliated, though in practice the group is largely an independent Islamist operation with a similar ideology. The group’s operations are confined almost exclusively to Somalia, though it has launched some strikes into neighboring countries as retaliation for those countries (particularly Kenya) being involved in interventions against it.
A lot has changed in Somalia in the 24 years between direct FPSA interventions, with the country undergoing a long period of comparatively stable anarchy followed by a protracted war designed to prop up a self-proclaimed government. It was this war, and African Union interventions to try to claim territory for this government, that largely fueled the creation of al-Shabaab.
