Al Shabaab Overruns Another Kenyan Base In Somalia

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Their intelligence must be superb. How do they know these guys would be drunk and asleep?

This is coming before we are told how many died in the last attack. KDF as usual denies the attack even took place and suggests that Al Shabaab is not to be believed because "Alshabaab lies all the time". Now that is a problem.

In the last attack Al Shabaab provided casualty figures, displayed photos and ID cards. It also revealed that some Kenyan troops have fled in to the wilderness. KDF denied everything staged secret burials, banned families from announcing their dead in the press and barred politicians from attending funerals.

God help Kenya. When the "tribal clashes" Mama Ngina and Moi agreed on start I wonder what will happen to that country.

Somalia's al Shabaab says kills dozens of Kenyan troops in raid on base
The Islamist group al Shabaab said its fighters killed dozens of Kenyan troops when they attacked a remote military base in Somalia on Friday, while Kenya's army dismissed the report and said "scores" of militants were killed.

A spokesman for al Shabaab, which often launches attacks on troops of the African Union's AMISOM force, said its fighters killed at least 66 Kenyans at the base in the southern town of Kulbiyow, near the Kenyan border.

Al Shabaab said it lost fighters but did not give numbers.

Kenyan military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paul Njuguna denied the claim that al Shabaab had killed dozens of soldiers but did not give any casualty figures.

In a statement, he said al Shabaab attackers used a vehicle packed with explosives to try to blast their way into the camp of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). "KDF soldiers repulsed the terrorists, killing scores," he said.

Njuguna said the attack was launched around dawn on Friday.

In January 2016, al Shabaab said it had killed more than 100 Kenyan soldiers in El Adde, a Somali camp near the border with Kenya. The military never gave details of casualties, but Kenya media reports suggested a toll of that magnitude.

Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operation spokesman, had told Reuters al Shabaab fighters rammed two suicide car bombs into the base and seized it. "We are pursuing the Kenyan soldiers who ran away into the woods," he said.

Al Shabaab, whose assessment of casualties often differs markedly from official versions, typically rams the entrance to a target site with a car or truck bomb so fighters can storm in.

The Islamist group, which once ruled much of Somalia, wants to topple the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and drive out the peacekeeping force made up of soldiers from Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Ethiopia and other African countries.

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Lately the KDF have been getting their asses handed to them.  I suspect the effects of Jubilant corruption are making their impact felt all the way to the battlefield.   They are ill equipped, ill prepared and likely poorly compensated.