Iran Moves Into Somalia
Jun 27, 2024 17:38:25 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Jun 27, 2024 17:38:25 GMT -5
Iran Moves Into Somalia
by Daniel Greenfield
June 27, 2024 at 5:00 am
Current reports suggest that the Houthis, an Iranian Shiite terror group, is negotiating to provide weapons to Yemen's Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Jihadist group allied with Al Qaeda, to expand Iran's control over shipping. While Al-Shabaab has operated using the conventional Al Qaeda playbook of rifles and IEDs, the Houthis can offer upgraded drones and missile technology. Pictured: Houthi soldiers in Sanaa, Yemen on January 19, 2024 (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images
After six months of Iran using its Houthi Jihadis to impose a blockade near Yemen while defying Biden to do anything about it, the Islamic global terror state is moving on to a Somali blockade.
Current reports suggest that the Houthis, an Iranian Shiite terror group, is negotiating to provide weapons to Yemen's Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Jihadist group allied with Al Qaeda, to expand Iran's control over shipping. While Al-Shabaab has operated using the conventional Al Qaeda playbook of rifles and IEDs, the Houthis can offer upgraded drones and missile technology.
And best of all, the Houthis can claim that the weapons were battle-tested on the US Navy.
When the Houthis began their naval blockade, the Biden administration had the opportunity to shut it down. Instead, a US Navy carrier group has been tied up for months with no results. The AP headlined its recent coverage as "US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels". But as Front Page Magazine already reported, the only reason the war keeps dragging on is that Biden has restricted the US Navy to responding to incoming attacks and only the occasional light bombing raids against the sources of the attacks.
The Houthis, whose motto, like that of their Iranian backers, includes, "Death to America", have been able to claim that they held off the world's greatest military for half a year, while imposing control over regional shipping and international trade. And now Iran is moving into Somalia.
One of the side-effects of Biden's refusal to go on the offensive against the Houthis was that the Somali pirates, who had been lying low during the Trump administration, decided to make a comeback. With Western naval operations diverted to the Yemeni blockade, it has fallen to the Indian Navy to protect shipping against the Somali pirates. But if the Yemen-Somali deal goes through, Al-Shabaab may displace the pirate gangs and impose its own naval blockade.
And with hundreds of US troops deployed in Somalia, the Al Qaeda affiliate armed by Iran would also have the opportunity to directly attack Americans with their new firepower. Previous local reports had already described a flow of weapons from Yemen to Somalia and pirates deploying anti-aircraft weapons aboard a hijacked vessel. So the arrangement may already be here.
When two US Navy SEALs died trying to intercept Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis in the waters near Somalia, the terror pipeline was very briefly in the headlines. But the Biden administration, pro-terror think tanks and the media quickly diverted our attention away.
Some of the credit for this ought to go to Rep. Ilhan Omar who spent her time in Congress spreading the lie that attacks on the Houthis had caused a famine in Yemen. The campaign to end the Saudi embargo that blocked Iran from shipping in weapons allowed the Houthis to impose their own embargo. And Rep. Omar, a Somali nationalist with ties to the current regime, has also been a vocal critic of U.S. air strikes on the Al-Shabaab rebels fighting the government.
Under Trump, Rep. Omar accused the U.S. military of covering up 'civilian' casualties during air strikes against Al Qaeda, and next year argued that, "we are not going to simply drone the Al-Shabaab problem to death." She also complained that the United States had not made payments to 'civilians' killed in the air strikes including some possibly unrelated 'Omars' who had died in Somalia. Last year, Rep. Omar vigorously supported Rep. Gaetz's resolution to withdraw U.S. forces from Somalia. Now it looks like Iran will be providing military support in Somalia.
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by Daniel Greenfield
June 27, 2024 at 5:00 am
Current reports suggest that the Houthis, an Iranian Shiite terror group, is negotiating to provide weapons to Yemen's Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Jihadist group allied with Al Qaeda, to expand Iran's control over shipping. While Al-Shabaab has operated using the conventional Al Qaeda playbook of rifles and IEDs, the Houthis can offer upgraded drones and missile technology. Pictured: Houthi soldiers in Sanaa, Yemen on January 19, 2024 (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images
After six months of Iran using its Houthi Jihadis to impose a blockade near Yemen while defying Biden to do anything about it, the Islamic global terror state is moving on to a Somali blockade.
Current reports suggest that the Houthis, an Iranian Shiite terror group, is negotiating to provide weapons to Yemen's Al-Shabaab, a Sunni Jihadist group allied with Al Qaeda, to expand Iran's control over shipping. While Al-Shabaab has operated using the conventional Al Qaeda playbook of rifles and IEDs, the Houthis can offer upgraded drones and missile technology.
And best of all, the Houthis can claim that the weapons were battle-tested on the US Navy.
When the Houthis began their naval blockade, the Biden administration had the opportunity to shut it down. Instead, a US Navy carrier group has been tied up for months with no results. The AP headlined its recent coverage as "US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels". But as Front Page Magazine already reported, the only reason the war keeps dragging on is that Biden has restricted the US Navy to responding to incoming attacks and only the occasional light bombing raids against the sources of the attacks.
The Houthis, whose motto, like that of their Iranian backers, includes, "Death to America", have been able to claim that they held off the world's greatest military for half a year, while imposing control over regional shipping and international trade. And now Iran is moving into Somalia.
One of the side-effects of Biden's refusal to go on the offensive against the Houthis was that the Somali pirates, who had been lying low during the Trump administration, decided to make a comeback. With Western naval operations diverted to the Yemeni blockade, it has fallen to the Indian Navy to protect shipping against the Somali pirates. But if the Yemen-Somali deal goes through, Al-Shabaab may displace the pirate gangs and impose its own naval blockade.
And with hundreds of US troops deployed in Somalia, the Al Qaeda affiliate armed by Iran would also have the opportunity to directly attack Americans with their new firepower. Previous local reports had already described a flow of weapons from Yemen to Somalia and pirates deploying anti-aircraft weapons aboard a hijacked vessel. So the arrangement may already be here.
When two US Navy SEALs died trying to intercept Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis in the waters near Somalia, the terror pipeline was very briefly in the headlines. But the Biden administration, pro-terror think tanks and the media quickly diverted our attention away.
Some of the credit for this ought to go to Rep. Ilhan Omar who spent her time in Congress spreading the lie that attacks on the Houthis had caused a famine in Yemen. The campaign to end the Saudi embargo that blocked Iran from shipping in weapons allowed the Houthis to impose their own embargo. And Rep. Omar, a Somali nationalist with ties to the current regime, has also been a vocal critic of U.S. air strikes on the Al-Shabaab rebels fighting the government.
Under Trump, Rep. Omar accused the U.S. military of covering up 'civilian' casualties during air strikes against Al Qaeda, and next year argued that, "we are not going to simply drone the Al-Shabaab problem to death." She also complained that the United States had not made payments to 'civilians' killed in the air strikes including some possibly unrelated 'Omars' who had died in Somalia. Last year, Rep. Omar vigorously supported Rep. Gaetz's resolution to withdraw U.S. forces from Somalia. Now it looks like Iran will be providing military support in Somalia.
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