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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/elite-brit-terror-troups-sent-25331887
Hundreds of elite British troops are preparing to be sent to Somalia within months to help fight growing terrorist networks.
Infantry forces will step up a training mission to teach Somali special forces how to smash the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab and Islamic State threat.
British officers from an elite Army unit are already in the region making plans for the mission which is expected to launch in late Spring 2022.
It comes in the wake of the death of Tory MP David Amess, 69, who was stabbed to death in an alleged terrorist attack during his constituency surgery.
British man Ali Harbi Ali, 25, whose family are originally from Somalia, has been charged with murder after being arrested at the scene of the killing on October 15.
Sources have told the Mirror the deployment of more troops to Somalia was under discussion before the Amess death….
US forces have also been in Somalia for some years helping local troops battle al-Shabab, which means the “youth.”
The heavily-armed al-Shabab group, linked to al-Qaeda, has spread its influence into neighbouring countries across East Africa.
It is well-funded by kidnappings, robberies, extortion and there is also a suspicion it has received backing from corrupt officials in Eritrea.
The group has also attacked in Kampala, Uganda in 2010, killing 74 and in a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall in 2013, killing 67.
Islamic State is also on the rise in the region.
Hundreds of elite British troops are preparing to be sent to Somalia within months to help fight growing terrorist networks.
Infantry forces will step up a training mission to teach Somali special forces how to smash the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab and Islamic State threat.
British officers from an elite Army unit are already in the region making plans for the mission which is expected to launch in late Spring 2022.
It comes in the wake of the death of Tory MP David Amess, 69, who was stabbed to death in an alleged terrorist attack during his constituency surgery.
British man Ali Harbi Ali, 25, whose family are originally from Somalia, has been charged with murder after being arrested at the scene of the killing on October 15.
Sources have told the Mirror the deployment of more troops to Somalia was under discussion before the Amess death….
US forces have also been in Somalia for some years helping local troops battle al-Shabab, which means the “youth.”
The heavily-armed al-Shabab group, linked to al-Qaeda, has spread its influence into neighbouring countries across East Africa.
It is well-funded by kidnappings, robberies, extortion and there is also a suspicion it has received backing from corrupt officials in Eritrea.
The group has also attacked in Kampala, Uganda in 2010, killing 74 and in a Nairobi, Kenya shopping mall in 2013, killing 67.
Islamic State is also on the rise in the region.
