Australia Navy Finds Weapons headed for Somalia

More than 2,000 weapons including assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and mortar tubes were found hidden under nets aboard a small fishing boat bound for Somalia.

Yaani inabidi navy itoke australia kwote ndio ikuje ishike wahalifu, kwani kazi ya kenya navy ni gani.Australians cross an the entire indian ocean to come and protect our waters.

This seems like complacency in the part of the Kenyan army, or poor strategy. I’m no expert though, the army should know better.

They are busy selling charcoal

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hehe…Na kuna ingine hapa ya US drone striking shabab. What have we been doing with our manned aircraft?

si muna umama wa kutosha. si mtupatie GPS position ya mahali walishikiwa…

Si kuna navy boats za nchi kadhaa in that section of international waters.

KDF si walipata drugs and destroyed the ship.

They are targeting jubilee…How can live with myself if jubilee isn’t praised?

Hujaskia airstrikes carried out by the KDF.

More than 2,000 warfare gadgets including assault rifles, rocket launchers and machine guns were found hidden under fishing nets in a Somalia-bound boat, Australian Navy officials said Monday.

The HMAS Darwin navy ship seized the weapons from the vessel during normal patrol of the Middle East-Eastern Africa coast waters.

Sunday’s recovery of the weapons could signal a continual but clandestine attempt by the Shabaab to keep their supply of arms despite a global operation against the terror group.

On Monday, Australia’s Vice Admiral David Johnston who is also the Chief of Joint Operations for the multi-nation patrol operation called Combined Maritime Forces, said the seizure of the cache could be significant even though there was no revelation of the origin of the weapons.

“Darwin’s successful boarding and subsequent seizure of the weapons concealed under fishing nets highlights the need to remain vigilant in the region,” Mr Johnston told theAustralian Navy magazine Navy Daily.

“Australia worked as part of the multinational Combined Maritime Forces to discover and seize these illegal weapons,” he added.

The ship upon netting the weapons, classified them as 1989 AK-47 assault rifles, 100 rocket propelled grenade launchers, 49 PKM general purpose machine guns, 39 PKM spare barrels and 20 60mm mortar tubes.

The fishing boat crew of 18 had reportedly hidden the arms under fishing nets and and were nabbed approximately 330km off the coast of Oman, heading towards Somalia.

The UN has imposed an arms embargo on Somalia in a bid to control the supply of illegal weapons to the war ravaged nation.

Under the United Nations sanctions, patrolling ships can intercept vessels in the high seas suspected to be ferrying weapons to Somalia.

The captured boat did not have an identification flag and the Australian Navy classified it as stateless.

Australia is part of a multinational team called the Combined Maritime Forces that routinely patrols about four million square kilometers of international waters lying between the Middle East and the Eastern Africa region.

The force, established in 2002 to fight terrorism, piracy and secure high seas for shipping lines currently includes up to 31 countries mostly from Asia and members of international security bloc the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

The African Union Mission in Somali (Amisom), to which Kenya Defence Forces belong, have been fighting the Somali terrorists who have occasionally employed guerrilla attacks on the mission’s camps in Somalia.

Last week troop contributing countries Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, Nigeria (police), Burundi, Ethiopia and Somalia jointly called for enhanced funding for Amisom and more restrictions on the militants to cut off their arms and financial supply.

Daily Nation - (emphasis mine)

Hizi majeshi huwa na bases nchi kadha utapata Australia navy ina base Mozambique au TZ au SA au Madagascar.

Drones za IS ziko na base Ethiopia which they are closing down.

Gani? Mbona sijawahi sikia news believable? I remember hearing of a leader of theirs killed but still it wasnt KAF.
Last time I heard of success is during first campaign when Kenya was at it alone.

But kenyan troops cant be withdrawn. They have to die for friends like M7. We cant bear break that friendship.

Also, can’t paste the story
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/pentagon-us-drone-strike-hits-training-camp-somalia-37464610

The Pentagon says a U.S. drone strike on Saturday struck a training camp for al-Shabab fighters in Somalia who were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, likely against African or U.S. personnel.

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, says the strike hit Raso Camp, killing more than 150 fighters. He says the U.S. was watching the camp for weeks. He says it appeared that the training was ending and the operational phase of a suspected attack was about to start.

Davis says the training camp, about 120 miles north of Mogadishu, was destroyed.

The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab has been linked to a number of attacks, including the detonation of a bomb aboard a commercial passenger jet last month that forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu.

ABCNews

Thanks darling

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When you suspect that you are hopelessly stupid, please don’t touch that keyboard - you just end up proving that you are are a mongoloid with bad genes.

To wit, the Australian navy stopped the ship with arms off the coast of Oman - nearly 2,000 nautical miles from Kenyan waters.

That area is patrolled by an international armada that includes everybody from the Chinese, the Australians, Americans and British to the Indians and Pakistanis.

Just how Kenya, which does not have a blue water navy, is supposed in the minds of some idiots here, to patrol half the Indian Ocean is beyond me.

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You are a stupid boy, rudia hivyo tena.
WE DO NOT HAVE A BLUE WATER NAVY. Go google

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Australian Navy netted cocaine twice headed to kenya… Kuna mtu alilia kwa choo

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War is business…u have to create new markets

These weapons were heading for the Houthis in Yemen from Iran ni vile tu no one wants to antogonise the Iranians…ndio wanasema Somalia

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