Is The U.S. Running A Secret War In Somalia?

Is The U.S. Ramping Up A Secret War In Somalia? -- Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy

Islamists in East Africa were supposed to be on the run. But the raids and spy flights keep increasing.

The Obama administration earlier this year expanded its secret war in Somalia, stepping up assistance for federal and regional Somali intelligence agencies that are allied against the country's Islamist insurgency. It's a move that's not only violating the terms of an international arms embargo, according to U.N. investigators. The escalation also could be a signal that Washington's signature victory against al-Qaeda's most powerful African ally may be in danger of unraveling.

Just last year, Obama's team was touting Somalia as unqualified success. "Somalia is a good news story for the region, for the international community, but most especially for the people of Somalia itself," Johnnie Carson, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told reporters last October at the New York Foreign Press Center. Carson praised African forces, principally Uganda and Kenya, for driving the terror group al-Shabab out of the Somalia's main cities, Mogadishu and Kismayo. "The U.S.," he boasted, "has been a significant and major contributor to this effort."

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My Comment: Chalk this up as another foreign war that America now finds itself in .... an involvement that has had zero debate or discussion in Congress or in the public.