UGANDAN FORCES CAN NOW CARRY PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACKS

[nomadicwarlord]

Somalia: AU Gives UPDF Mandate to Attack Militant
Entebbe — The African Union (AU) has reviewed the mandate of UPDF in Somalia and allowed the Ugandan forces to attack the Al-shabaab militants, the Defence Minister announced yesterday.
Dr Crispus Kiyonga told Journalists after flagging-off three UPDF battalions to Somalia at Entebbe military airbase yesterday that the earlier mandate constrained the UPDF and was deadly as it demanded the peacekeepers to fight back only if they were attacked first.

The new mandate now means that the UPDF can carry out pre-emptive attacks on the insurgents in the war tone Horn of Africa country.
While three battalions left Entebbe yesterday, three others returned from Somalia in a rotational arrangement.

Mr Kiyonga told journalists yesterday that the UPDF mandate was reviewed last week at the AU emergency summit in Libya.
Mr Kiyonga represented President Yoweri Museveni at the summit.
"Our view as Uganda and Burundi has been that the mandate under which we are operating was very constraining," Mr Kiyonga said. "We would have made much more progress if the mandate was more facilitating. Currently, the army just seats where they are in their detachments even when they have information that insurgents are just two kilometres away," he said, "They [UPDF] can not attack them. We wait for insurgents to shoot first and we respond."
Uganda and Burundi have more than 4,000 troops deployed in Somalia.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200909050001.html

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Finally, now they can actually be of use

[nomadicwarlord]

A peacekeeping force is useless in Somalia. This move will probably help the TFG capture the entire capital. Sheikh Aweys can now find an apartment to rent in Eastleigh.

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

Let see weither shabaab will run away or fight them like they figth somalis.
I think these munafiqeen will run away,and only fight during night.
Hiding their cowardice by using guerilla warfare as argument

The shabaab terrorists are back again in west of beledweyn,after amxaaro left. And they run miles,when amxaaro returns back.
What a great jihad!