{"id":105262,"date":"2014-01-12T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T05:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-troops-in-somalia-not-surprising\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T05:43:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T05:43:18","slug":"us-troops-in-somalia-not-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-troops-in-somalia-not-surprising\/","title":{"rendered":"US troops in Somalia &#8216;not surprising&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The deployment of US troops in Somalia as \u00c5\u201ctrainers and advisers\u201d is not surprising as the entire African Union mission to the country is run by Washington, an analyst says. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThe entire African Union mission to Somalia is largely financed and trained and coordinated by the United States, so it\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not surprising that the Obama administration would admit that they had military advisors inside the country,\u201d editor of Pan-African News Wire Abayomi Azikiwe told Press TV on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cWhat is going on is that they\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re trying to contain the political and security situation inside the country. They want to repress al-Shabab, the Islamic resistance organization, inside Somalia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the US military \u00c5\u201csecretly deployed a small number of trainers and advisers to Somalia in October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, a cell of American military personnel has been in the Somali capital of Mogadishu to advise and coordinate operations with African troops.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration in recent years has become more directly involved in the African nation.<\/p>\n<p>US drones conduct surveillance missions and airstrikes from Somalia\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s skies. Special Operations forces have also set foot on Somali territory on rare occasions to carry out counterterrorism raids and hostage rescues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThey have drone stations operating in Somalia,\u201d Azikiwe said. \u00c5\u201cThey have a CIA station as well in Mogadishu, Somalia\u2026 so it\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not anything unusual that they would admit that they had military advisors inside Somalia.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>AGB\/HJ<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/01\/12\/345120\/us-troops-in-somalia-not-surprising\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US troops in Somalia 'not surprising'\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deployment of US troops in Somalia as \u00c5\u201ctrainers and advisers\u201d is not surprising as the entire African Union mission to the country is run by Washington, an analyst says. \u00c5\u201cThe entire African Union mission to Somalia is largely financed and trained and coordinated by the United States, so it\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not surprising that the Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}