1) their Sheikh Abu Zubayr Battalion did that -
they claim to have killed 60 of them last year.

2) then they used the weapons from the ethiopians to kill Burundian soldiers. Then they took ugandan weapons.

3) alkefafus replenish their munitions from raids, and use this in the next attack.
If the captured Burundian APC had been sought and destroyed then we would not be talking of this attack now.

4)A soft skin VBIED can be destroyed before covering a large distance, however an APC can withstand light calibre fire until it reaches an optimum place to detonate like happened in el adde. That is why KDF has been destroying all captured munitions

4) while AMISOM refunds us on the other equipment it doesnt do so on the air assets...hizo ndege zinalipwa na Treasury

5) where else does alkefaf get their weapon supplies? Through raids, blackmarket and Gulf of Aden, and we used to lipua them as soon they were spotted in the waters, until we rehatted to amisom

6) Where does their financing come from?

7) the AMISOM model of setting up forward
operating bases (fob) like the janale (Ug),
deynille (Burundians) and El Adde (Kenyans)
ones once they have captured a town is
clearly not working, and needs a total
rethink.

8) amison needs to increase troop strength - current armies stretched

9) alkefafus are now emboldened, and can attack any army, the cloak of invicibility of kdf has been shattered. More attacks would be expected.

10) Drone attacks used to help decimate Alkefafu leadership but base moved - nearest in djibouti. But why were kenyans not using drones in el adde town for recon?

Good question. Something I've wondered over and over. Drones for surveillance and for protection. Shouldn't this have been a 24 hr thing, with monitored drones covering every base's proximity for attack? Kwani what modern warfare is being employed? Satelite surveillance?

Any movement should be seen and investigated kilometres away, from any base, by machines, before military personnel is employed.

Even in our mall terrorist attack, were drones used for upelelezi and/or launching the rescue?

These attacks happen when someone is at the Hague Re: Westgate, Garissa and now Elade. Am i hearing that commanders at the base were warned of impending attack?

Facts:
1) True no. of Kenyan KIA will never be publicly known, hata mpige
ndurua aje - reason not to demoralize soldiers in theatre
(kenyan + amisom), not to embolden alkefafu and to maintain kdf
esteem. It will be classified.Besides some may hv been killed
elsewhere - MIA.
2) also tru n. of alkefafu died in this attack and in kdf's counter-
offensive attack/airstrikes won't be disclosed - maybe by a
defector sometime one day,
3) the kdf communications and armoury were swiftly hit by the
vbieds - meaning someone leaked the layout of our camp to AS,
who and where is the mole?
4) the avrg Somalis practice moderate Islam - foreign jihadist
fighters (woii including kenyans)are responsible for this
extremism/violence typical of wahhabism.
Means we have very professional bomb-makers next door who know
how to rig huge (500Kg+) bombs - clear and present danger to
+254.
5) attack was complex and organized over time - eg AS had started
streaming into the town in small groups so as not to attract
attention, they used a decoy to lure away our armoured cars
(kama hii:
https://en.wikipedia.org...ard_AML-90_img_2308.jpg)
so that vbieds could move in, they had anti-aircraft ready and
fighters to harass reinforcements during/after attack

6) kdf intelligence should pull down any offending vids and photos?
propaganda war
7) Irresponsible journalism: Standard of jana should not have
pointed out the missing camp commander - he becomes #1 alkefafu
target if alive.
Worse still - on the first page they say his name has been
withheld then on Pg 9 identify his name and rank.
8) the same modus operandi used in el adde was same in attacking
ugandan, burundians and ethiopians - vbied followed by waves of
infantry attacking periodically. Meaning the armies didnt study
enemy methods and develop countermeasures. Makes you wonder if
we learnt and incorporated any lessons from all other attacks -
if not you can bet another attack wil come and we will need
more hashtags & candles

Before you are a heart surgeon you are a general doctor and then specialize for the heart,before you are a bank robber you are a getta guy then you upgrade,before you become a special force soldier you are a general[GD] soldier then you specialize in say search and rescue/terrorism counter measures etc

It appears the longer we stay in Somalia and improve our strategies, the more Shabbab are forced to look for new strategies to counter the same. This means the longer we stay, the stronger they become or seek to become. And it therefore follows, when we eventually leave, if we ever do, these guys will be too strong for their own govt. If we've been there 5 years and no end in sight, is it foolish to ask if there is any other strategy that could be employed. Personally am beginning to think the only thing that could work is subdivision into 3 or 4 autonomous states. Somalis are merchants from time immemorial and it ain't going to be easy to westernize them

www.mobile.nation.co.ke/...l/-/du2by9z/-/index.html

C&P

General Mwathathe said the explosion at El-Adde
happened at the centre of the KDF camp
where the officers in charge were. The
command centre was also at the point of
the explosion.
The force of the explosion was three
times more than the August 7, 1998
terrorist bombing in Nairobi, he said. He
added that identifying the bodies would
require DNA analysis and was likely to
take long.
Gen Mwathethe said a KDF aircraft that
was headed to Kismayu was diverted to
El-Adde on the first day to confirm the
attack but it encountered anti-aircraft
gunfire and the officers on board could
not attempt any rescue.
The first reinforcement reached the area
on the third day after the attack. He said
El-Adde is now under the control of the
KDF.

If you want to know that this is true.look for the online video posted by Alshabab whenn they overran the Ugandan base.Its so difficult for a conventional army to defend itself against heavily armed lunatics who want to become martyrs.

I have only seen the video on the failed attack on the army base in lamu. And judging from the firefight then, things must have been tough in el adde.

it's very hard to fight suicide bombers however strong an army can be. You have to gather intelligence prior to the attack and neutralize them before the D-Day.