The Trump administration
is divided over how to handle recent battlefield gains in Somalia by
al-Shabaab, which has been making advances and is threatening the
US-backed government’s hold on Mogadishu, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
The report said that State Department officials have proposed closing
down the US embassy in Mogadishu and evacuating most US personnel to
avoid a rushed withdrawal if al-Shabaab does end up taking the city.
Sebastian
Gorka: A Deeper Look at Controversial Allegations - The State
Department designated the Vitézi Rend as having been “under the
direction of the Nazi Government of Germany during World War II,” and classifies members of
the group as inadmissible to the United States under the Immigration and
Nationality Act. Modern Vitezi Rend
members, according to retired Yale historian Eva
Balogh, follow the same “ethical and moral code” as their 20th Century
predecessors. This affiliation first surfaced
when in January Gorka wore the favored uniform of Horthy’s supporters, and a medal bestowed upon
Horthy’s Vitézi Rend to an inaugural ball for President Trump. In
response to questions from NBC News, current Vitezi Rend spokesman
Andras Horvath said, “When he [Gorka] appeared on U.S.
television ... with the medal of the Vitez Order ... it made me really
proud.” Several people interviewed by NBC in the
Hungarian town where Gorka ran for mayor in 2006 said it was well- known
that Gorka was a member of the Vitezi Rend, and that he made no effort
to hide his membershipwhile campaigning. [Saints, This just exposes
the hypocrisy of Donald Trump. When is ICE going to raid the home of
Sebastian Gorka and deport him?)
The Times report said that during an inter-agency meeting, Gorka argued
that al-Shabaab taking over Mogadishu would be intolerable and
suggested stepping up airstrikes against them, which would mark an
escalation of a policy that’s failed to achieve any progress.
Sebastian Gorka
speaking at the International Special Training Centre in Pfullendorf,
Germany, May 14, 2015 (public domain photo via Picryl)
No final decision was made at the meeting, and the administration is
still divided over what to do next. Many want to avoid a situation
similar to the Afghanistan withdrawal, which involved a rushed
evacuation of diplomatic personnel. According to US Africa Command,
there are about 500 to 600 US troops in Somalia.
Through multiple US administrations, the US has propped up the federal
government, which controls little territory inside Somalia’s
internationally recognized borders and appears to be weaker than ever.
Somaliland in the northwest has acted as a de facto independent state
for decades, and last year, the northeastern Puntland region withdrew
from the federal system, and the southern Jubaland state ended its
cooperation with the federal government following a dispute over
elections.
According to the Times, there have been reports of federal government
troops not being willing to stand and fight against al-Shabaab.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is also said to have alienated rival
clans and some of his own supporters.
President Trump dramatically ramped up airstrikes in Somalia during his
first term, and since returning to office, he has launched strikes
against al-Shabaab and Somalia’s ISIS affiliate, which is based in the
Puntland region.
Hawks who favor continued intervention in Somalia portray al-Shabaab as
a major threat to the US due to its size and al-Qaeda affiliation, but
it’s widely believed the group does
not have ambitions outside of Somalia.
Al-Shabaab was born out of a US-backed
Ethiopian invasion in 2006 that toppled the Islamic Courts Union, a
coalition of Muslim groups who briefly held power in Mogadishu after
ousting CIA backed warlords.
Al-Shabaab was the radical offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union. The
group’s first recorded attack was in 2007,
and it wasn’t until 2012 that al-Shabaab pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda
after years of fighting the US and its proxies.
Jesuit
Pope Francis meets with former Director of the CIA during the Obama administration Leon Panetta
HOW THE U.S. MILITARY HELPED OVERTHROW SYRIA'S GOVT
US allied with Al-Qaeda in Syria
CIA was spending $1 billion per year training Al-Qaeda linked rebels
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by
their fruits ye shall know them.
Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein
shall not know peace.
1 Corinthians 10:21
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot
be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
[Saints, This just exposes
the hypocrisy of Donald Trump. When is ICE going to raid the home of
Sebastian Gorka and deport him?) 
