Kenyan Forces Mass for Invasion of Kismayo Port

[xiinfaniin]

No Exit Strategy, Invasion Forces Already Bogged Dow

 

by Jason Ditz, November 02, 2011

 

Its only been a hair over two weeks since Kenya launched its invasion of southern Somalia, but the situation already has all of the hallmarks of a quagmire, with the invasion force having no apparent exit strategy and officials promising to continue the war however long it takes.

 

But this lack of planning isn’t stopping Kenya from getting itself deeper into the conflict, with troops reportedly massing around the outskirts of the key port city of Kismayo for an attempted conquest and what will likely be an enormous battle.

 

Though Kismayo is a major source of revenue for the al-Shabaab fighters in the area, the occupation of a city of nearly 200,000 people would present even more problems for the Kenyan invasion force, particularly with anger over the civilian death toll in a recent air strike against a nearby refugee camp.

 

Some see Kenya’s invasion as an attempt to carve out a “buffer zone” along their frontier to cope with the famine refugee problem, but in practice the invasion has made delivering aid to refugees even harder, and the prospect of an open-ended occupation by Christian Kenya against the Muslim territories in southern Somalia seems an extremely effective recruiting tool for al-Shabaab.

 

Source : Antiwar.com

[Knight of Wisdom]

This is good news. The people will be liberated from the tortures, extremist, Anti-Somalia elements they have been under for all these years.

 

Jubbaland will be brought back to it's glory. Jubba Airlines will soon be traveling in and out of Kismaayo International Airport. It looks goood !

[Somalia]

^^ So naive

[Knight of Wisdom]

Somalia;755643 wrote:

^^ So naive

You have cuqdad against Jubbaland too? Lol

[Somalia]

^^ Well you copied the cuqdad line so, ever had an original thought?

[Dabrow]

Bugged already?? Good news, thats the faith of all invaders. Kenya as agressor ask for this fight and I dont mind alshabab creating a buffert zone inside Kenya.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Rag wa is guraya

[Showqi]

Somalia;755643 wrote:

^^ So naive

TFG xoogeedu hadii uu Xamar uun ku ekaaday!!! bal adigu yaad isleedahay Al-Shabaab wey ka saari lahayeen Kismayo?

weynu ognahay Al-Shabaab dadka Kismayo degan waxay u geystaan dil iyo dhac joogto ah. Markaa dadkaa Soomaaliyeed ee kismayo degen hadii ay TFG nabadgalyadoodii sugi weydey dee dalka Kenya ee aynu jaarka nahay ayaa diyaar u ah in ay nabadgalyadooda sugaan. Abaal gabe ha noqonin

[Somalia]

^^ Very optimisitc, Kenya can't hold on to a few villages if Al-Shabaab engaged with them let alone a city the size of Kismayo.

 

Kismayo should be the last city to be liberated like Sirte. Kenya should cut off Kismayo from the surrounding cities until TFG has the same forces it had in 2007.