Al-Shabab, an ISIS-affiliated jihadi group, has made gains in Cabo Delgado, the northeast of Mozambique, and seized the strategic port of Mocimboa da Praia in August before the latest attack in Palma
The Islamic State group said Monday it had seized the coastal town of Palma in northern Mozambique, after days of fighting.
“The caliphate’s soldiers seize the strategic town of Palma” following a three-day attack against military and government targets that killed dozens, the group said in a statement on its Telegram channels.
The jihadist group’s claim came after thousands of survivors of coordinated jihadist attacks in the town fled on boats to the provincial capital, Pemba, according to sources in the city.
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"In a testy exchange with an ABC reporter Wednesday, Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest insisted that the United States continues to "enjoy the benefits of a sustained counterterrorism security relationship with the security infrastructure that remains in Yemen." President Obama has argued in the past that Yemen is a model for his small-footprint strategy."
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Obama did such a bang up job that ISIS metastasized and set up shop in Mozambique.
We need Barack Hussein back. We need full strength stupidity, which cannot be criticized not this weak kneed codger stupidity of Joe Biden.
Once Obammie has stuck a fork into Mozambique, he can move on to South Africa and Angola whereby he will have a gran slam and have fucked up all of Africa.
President Obama’s ‘successful’ counterterrorism strategy in Yemen in limbo
ReplyDelete"When announcing the US strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama said he would model it after America’s counterterrorism strategy in Somalia and Yemen, “one that we have successfully pursued…for years.” "
Where is Obama? He is living on the beach that he said would be underwater due to global warming.
When Obungles is not on an Atlantic coast beach he is on a Pacific Beach supervising the destruction of Native Hawaiian heritage to make room for another one of his mansions.