Terra's investigative reporting: How Al Shabaab defeated Somali Army

[Illyria]

 

[gooni]

Haaruun macruuf
Ma garan karo in qof kastaa akhrin karo, midabkiisa saxdaa

Dhacdooyinkaas waa wayn wuxuu kasoo qaatay kuliyadii jaalle siyaad oo uu ka dhigayo daciif, ama dhacdooyin soo dhici jiray oo iska caadi ah

Munaafaqu gaalka waa kaga hooseeyaa naarta.
Ilaahow hanagu dilin munaafaqnimo.

 

[Shurwac]

Waba Harun oo 30 / 30 waraysanyo - dadka kuwan dhagaysanayo in 2023 wa dadnocee ah

[Illyria]

On 8/1/2023 at 2:02 AM, Illyria said:

 

Here is a summary.

This is an eye opening, a brilliant piece of investigative reporting by C/razaq Terra, who provides an insight as to how the Fed. government mismanaged the fight against Al Shabaab, but even goes insofar as to suggest there being a seditious ploy to dismantle the Somali Army. His scoping and timeline are precise, if detailed with May 2023 being one of the deadliest, if not the worse. He hones in on where it all went wrong, as he compares the initial gains in the latter half of 2022 versus considerable losses in the first half of 2023, when it all went awry.

His conclusion:
a) There was a deliberate plan to sabotage the Somali Army whilst feeding Al Shabaab inside Army intel,
b) A seditious ploy to destroy the Somali Army.

Losses & Casualties:
Casualties on the Somali Army side incl. ATMIS:
Total deaths: 1,394
218 are of ATMIS majority of whom are of Uganda.

Wounded: 554

Majority of senior Somali Army officers had been killed.

Al Shabaab recaptured 85% of battle areas previously captured by the Somali Army.

Weaponry captured by Al Shabaab:
365 heavy armory / armoured vehicles
14 heavy lorries for freight and cargo
16 ambulances
8 water tankers
12 luxury army officer vehicles

150 armoured vehicles destroyed,
82 of them equipped with surveillance & telecom equipment, radars, signal jammers etc
45 equipped with GPS.

[Illyria]

There has been heavy fighting which lasted for five hours where Al-Shabaab took over three bases of the Somali National Army stationed in Caad, Galmudug Region. On top of the heavy losses, the Somali National Army’s Gorgor Commandos officers and soldiers who survived the attack & spoke to me; revealed more than 230 confirmed deaths with countless injured. The SNA stationed there were 4 battalions of Gorgor Commandos, 15 suicide bombers detonated their vests while waves of attacks by terrorists ensued in the heat of battle. No reinforcements made to the besieged army despite the heavy losses, Al-Shabaab took massive armaments and battle reinforced wagons. Since Hassan Sheikh announced his half-baked fake war against the terrorists, the number of lost soldiers exceed 4,000 and more than 300 officers of the national army!

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