Kenya declares war on Al Shabaab!
Kenya declares war on Al Shabaab!
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An explosion hit a Kenyan security forces vehicle on Friday, wounding three, a day after the first serious clash between Kenyan soldiers and Somali militants inside the neighbouring nation, medics and police said.
The attack is the fourth on Kenyan soil this week. Kenya sent soldiers and heavy weapons into Somalia 13 days ago to crush al Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group Nairobi blames for a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil and border incursions.
Explosion hits Kenyan security forces vehicle | Top News | Reuters
Al qaeda rafiki ya US katika kueneza terror around the globe. Tanzania next.
The attack is the fourth on Kenyan soil this week. Kenya sent soldiers and heavy weapons into Somalia 13 days ago to crush al Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group Nairobi blames for a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil and border incursions.
Explosion hits Kenyan security forces vehicle | Top News | Reuters
Al qaeda rafiki ya US katika kueneza terror around the globe. Tanzania next.
Ulinziguy
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so you think war is just a walk in the park?if you have some military knowledge you will understand that war involves planning and effective coordination because every wrong mistake you make can lead to heavy losses.Thank you.
Bantugbro
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mluga said:
<br><br><div>Mkuu give the Kenyan army some break, they have never been in a large scale conflict before, this invasion is a real-life learning curve for them...
.....Kenya's armed forces are relatively small and have thus been called on only in domestic conflicts. Kenya has little capability of exerting military influence outside its borders. Their combat worthiness in the field remain untested since independence.</span> In 1994, military expenditures were $134 million, about 3.9% of the GDP. Military branches include the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the paramilitary General Service Unit which is used internally during political and civil disturbances......</div><div><strong>Source:</strong><br>http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/kdefense.htm<br><br></div><div><br></div>
Anko Sam
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Kazi kwao....
Kenya Army female soldier!
Hiyo ni AK 47 ya Kirusi wanayotumia jeshi la Kenya, wabongo jeshi letu linatumia sana SMG ya mchina.
Watu wa pwani chini ya Mombasa Republican Council bado wanasisitiza Mombasa kujitenga na kuwa taifa huru maana hawatambui kuwa wapo ndani ya nchi ya Kenya, kesi ipo mahakamani na jopo la majaji watasikiliza madai ya Mombasa kuwa nchi huru mpya ktk bara la Afrika:
Oktoba 16, 2011, Mombasa:
Oktoba 16, 2011, Mombasa:
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Mekatilili
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It is laughable that in your attempt to belittle the men and women on the front line who have offered up their lives for our country you have allowed your ignorance to spout with your outdated figures presented to bolster your noise. Kenya spent over $600 million on defence in the year 2010 while Tanzania spent $162 million and Uganda spent $99 million on defence. If you are judging by military budgets Kenya spent 2.5 the amount of money those two countries did and the Kenyan military is better armed and trained due to our extensive links with the real military super powers of the world.
The last real war Tanzania fought was in 1978 and it being 33 years ago those soldiers that so gallantly invaded Uganda are on average 60 years old. Unless your are telling me Tanzania's military is made up of 60 year old men your current crop soldiers have never fought in a real war and please do not bring up your adventures in the Comoros Island where your fought against panga wielding teenagers because that is the reserve of city council askaris in Kenya. At this point it would only be respectable for you to get off the inexperience bandwagon and look inwardly.
The Ugandans on the other hand have been in a battle for as long as I can remember, fighting child soldiers and about 5000 LRA men in a forest somewhere in northern Uganda and hopefully with the assistance of the 100 military experts from the USA their 40, 0000 strong army will crush the enemy. Sadly their great numbers have failed them for years even when the odds favoured them 8 to 1. Get off the numbers bandwagon!
The Kenyan forces have been very successful in Somalia and Kismayu will fall. Al Shabaab is aware of that and that is why they have been sending emissaries to Kenya to negotiate a cease fire and are begging the sleeper cells to blow their guts out and cause fear since that is their currency. They are like toothless dogs with no bite to back their barks save for the occasional brains washed sympathisers willing to risk their lives for these thugs and I am afraid there are many on this site that are on that path.
Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya have a shared history. Many of our citizens have lost their lives at the hands of the extremist who in their calls for jihad will not spare your mothers or sisters whether you are a muslim or christian. It is therefore astounding to see so many xenophobic and paranoid people on this website who assume that there exists a contest between Kenya and their country in everything Kenya does and will always end on the other end of the debate parading their ignorance.
There exists freedom of speech but it is a far cry from idiocy.
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kuna jamii hazifai kusihi nazo-kamwe hawaridhiki-hawana tofauti na zenji hawa
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Mbona amelegea sana anaweza kupigana vita huyu
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Kazi kwao....
Kenya Army female soldier!
unawajua alshababy unawasikia, huyu watambaka kama adhabu yake ndogo,
Moshe Dayan
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anko sam ak47 unaijua au unazungumza tu...., hyo ni ak47 kweli!??
Raia Fulani
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beware of folks who aint got nothing to lose
Raia Fulani
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hii vita mmarekani aliishindwa, tena enzi hizo kina farah aideed wakipigana kikabila zaidi. Leo hii ni ukabila ulionakshiwa na uharamia na ugaidi. Yetu macho
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[h=2]Tanzania backs Kenya's Al Shabaab war[/h]Posted by PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE on October 29, 2011
PERTH, Australia, Oct 29 – Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has supported Kenya's decision to invoke Article 51 of the United Nations Charter to defend her economic and security interests threatened by Al-Shaabab insurgents.
President Kikwete said Kenya is justified in taking action against the Islamic militants who have blatantly violated her territorial integrity through escalated cross-border raids. He pledged his country's commitment to support efforts by Kenya, IGAD, EAC, AU and the international community to stabilize Somalia and the Horn of Africa region.
The Tanzanian leader, who is in Perth, Western Australia for the CHOGM 2011, was speaking when he paid a courtesy call on President Kibaki at his residence. The meeting followed an earlier brief by President Kibaki to an executive session of the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government on Kenya's military operation against Al-Shabaab to secure national security and economic interests.
During the session, President Kibaki maintained that Kenya was not at war with Somalia but is carrying out military action against the Islamic militia which is a non-state actor. The Tanzanian leader, at the same time, joined other world leaders in calling for tougher action against piracy in the Indian Ocean, which continued to increase the costs of international trade and cause enormous harm to regional countries' fishing and tourist industries.
Earlier, at a forum on Indian Ocean Piracy held on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, participants observed that piracy is now rife off the coast of Somalia and is spreading to other regions around Africa. The leaders noted that pirates attacked a record number of ships worldwide in the first nine months of 2011, but are making off with fewer vessels due to better policing by international naval forces.
Leaders were of the view that the financiers of piracy must be targeted and pursued through surveillance, so that the true beneficiaries of the illegal trade may be brought to justice.
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Askari Kanzu
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Kenya to stay in Somalia until 'threat' is gone
NAIROBI, Kenya – The chief of Kenya's armed forces says Kenyan troops will stay in southern Somalia until Kenyans feel safe again.
Gen. Julius Karangi told reporters Saturday that there was no timeline for the Kenyan operation to end. Kenya sent troops into Somalia earlier this month after a string of cross-border attacks and kidnappings.
But Karangi says Kenya has no interest in permanently occupying Somalia and is working alongside the weak U.N.-backed Somali government, which only holds the capital with the help of 9,000 African Union soldiers.
Karangi says that although Kenya has bilateral military agreements with countries like the United States and Britain, those allies are not directly involved militarily in the incursion into Somalia.
Yahoo News
NAIROBI, Kenya – The chief of Kenya's armed forces says Kenyan troops will stay in southern Somalia until Kenyans feel safe again.
Gen. Julius Karangi told reporters Saturday that there was no timeline for the Kenyan operation to end. Kenya sent troops into Somalia earlier this month after a string of cross-border attacks and kidnappings.
But Karangi says Kenya has no interest in permanently occupying Somalia and is working alongside the weak U.N.-backed Somali government, which only holds the capital with the help of 9,000 African Union soldiers.
Karangi says that although Kenya has bilateral military agreements with countries like the United States and Britain, those allies are not directly involved militarily in the incursion into Somalia.
Yahoo News
Bantugbro
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I berg you not to be emotional and start dealing with real matters at hand, your insults here will not win your wayward war in Somalia. Cool down and lets be realistic: is not true that Kenya has never been to war before since independence?? and is it not true that Kenya's armed forces are relatively small and have thus been called on only in domestic conflicts??.
Btw, the this information is coming from the United States of America (USA), your so-called big power friend. I did not add anything on it just copy and paste as it is.....
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East Africa Living Encyclopedia
FYI, Tanzania's army has fought and won a not much publicized war of liberating the Anjouan islands of Comoro in 2008 without loosing a soldier in combat!!. Now please look at the following pictures below and tell me if those TPDF/JWTZ soldiers look 60 years old to you....
