Agreed, hawa sio watu wa kukuekelea, they know what they are saying. Plus huyu Jamaa wetu was seriously radicalised so we knew he was probably involved in terrorism. ATPU and other shadowy special ops are in essence garbage boys for the west, they take out targets the west has deemed to be trash.
You can also call them errand boys. This is because the west has been embarrassed in the past by attempting special ops in foreign trouble spots gung ho style. Remember Iran hostage rescue, Mogadishu black hawk saga? At first they were hesitant to share weapon and tactics with sโthole countries but images of dead soldiers on tv are usually bad for politicians.
Shabaab started off in another name as a US funded movement whose mission was to undo warlords that had ravaged somalia in its first phase as a failed state.
A very disciplined and focussed group of young men got CIA funding and special ops training and they easily dispatched the ageing former clan honchos and their miraa-dazed foot soldiers to the history books. After shabab caught wind in its sails and begun to take over the rest of somalia, the west became alarmed. The west now turned to East Africa to help clean up the movement that they now realized were radicals after they got sheikh oil funding.
Thats how Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya got classified funding, training and deployments to displace, disorganize and eliminate shababs.
