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In the weeks before the military campaign began, State Department and Pentagon officials said that they had some concerns about the impending Ethiopian governmentÂ’s offensive in Somalia.

But as the EthiopianÂ’s march toward war looked more likely, Americans began providing Ethiopian troops with up-to-date intelligence on the military positions of the Islamist fighters in Somalia, Pentagon and counterterrorism officials said.

According to a Pentagon consultant with knowledge about Special Operations, small teams of American advisers crossed the border into Somalia with the advancing Ethiopian army.

“You’re not talking lots of guys,” the Pentagon consultant said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “You’re talking onesies and twosies.”


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Intaney bilaabin sheekadu baan idiin sii sheegay

Nomadic people who travelled to Afmadoow saw military personnel with tents set up in Jiiro. It is not twos or Ones as the guy said but a lot more.

Perhaps, but they could be Ethiopians also.

There's no way it's a lot. If it were line guys, I would be with them.

Gedo-Boy,

You think the Nomads confuse whites with Africans? The nomads most certainly know what they are talking about me thinks and. I think if they were ethiopians, they would have said so.


MAD

Even small number of rednecks deployed there are there illegally. But then again, who cares about legality when you have some muslims to kill

Illegally? Good grief. Talking about legality in Somalia is a sysaphean task.

Madmac, ther's gotta 2 be some legality in everything, otherwise you ain't better than nobody else!

I ain't claiming to be better than anybody.

US policy is quite clear on this point. If a state will not or can not detain militants operating on its territory we will do so without respect for sovereignty.

Can't trust you man, you could be a spy among us. I don't know why we trust you. If you are this obsessed in justifying the wrongs of your country, then it leads to the only conclusion that you care about nothing else.

Being a soldier makes one robot-like with no feelings and distant from all attachments to self-examination, no questions asked on immoral humanly unexecutable policies, you are too loyal to make make sense and stand on your own. Don't tell me when you leave the Army behind is when you start talking some sense and be reasonable

I swear, no matter how many times I explain this, it doesn't sink in.

I DON'T GIVE A FOCK ABOUT MORALITY.

I am telling you how it is. Not how it should be. You can like it, or not like it, I don't care.

I soldier because I like to soldier, because I am good at it, and because I am well paid for it. It's really simple.

Who we kill, and where, I don't care.