[ April 24, 2024 ]
Isn’t that the point? Imagine, Dem Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appointed this nightmare to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Ilhan Omar Complains Trump Is Droning Jihadis in Somalia ‘to Death’
WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), during a House panel hearing on Thursday, complained that U.S. President Donald Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.
Describing herself as “an African on this committee,” she suggested that the Trump administration should “reassess” the way it deals with al-Shabaab and other jihadis in Somalia.
Her comments came during a hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Omar told the Trump administration witnesses invited to testify:I just wanted to really get into this horrific reign of terror and its spread in Africa, and we oftentimes are really dealing with this issue, and it seems that we are attempting to drone it to death. … In Somalia, particularly in dealing with al-Shabaab, since President Trump has gotten elected, the number of drones have increased, but the number of attacks al-Shabaab has been able to carry out has also tripled. We also know the same to be true for Boko Haram.
On the African continent, the United States military only carries out direct airstrikes in Libya and Somalia. The U.S. does not directly target the Nigeria-based Boko Haram group, but it does support local efforts against the jihadis.“There is sort of a direct correlation between our droning, and the increase of their [jihadis] assaults. And their recruitment seems to increase because of some of the civilian casualties that take place,” Omar stressed.
Breitbart News was unable to verify Omar’s assertion that the U.S. air campaign has led to an increase in terrorist attacks and recruitment.
Citing Pentagon data, the Long War Journal reported in March that U.S. airstrikes against al-Shabaab, not attacks by the group as Omar indicated, are “on pace to nearly triple last year’s record number of airstrikes” dropped on the group.
Michelle Lenihan, the acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for African Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) who testified during the hearing, told Omar that drone strikes are just a “minor component” of America’s approach to bringing stability to Somalia.
In November 2018, the Mogadishu-based Hiraal Institute argued that the increase in U.S. airstrikes forced al-Shabaab to change its tactics and resulted in “fewer” attacks in Somalia.
At the time, the Institute did acknowledge that the terrorist group was adapting to the “increasingly lethal air campaign.”
Residents of the Somali capital of Mogadishu did experience a wave of deadly suicide and car bomb attacks at the hands of al-Shabaab in March.
Omar claimed that comments attributed to Trump by Democrat anonymous sources and rebuked by the president make it difficult for African countries to partner with the United States.
Omar proclaimed:
All of you talked about the partnership that needs to happen in order for us to have greater influence in Africa, and I would be remiss if I didn’t say that, as an African on this committee, when you have a president who uses language like ‘shit hole countries,’ it makes it really hard for people in Africa to sort of think of themselves as being partners with the United States, and so I hope that we are in the business of developing better relations.
Omar is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia who entered the United States as a refugee.
Marking a significant departure from the previous administration, Trump has intensified the U.S. military’s air campaign against al-Shabaab, killing at least 200 jihadis this year alone.
Last year, U.S. airstrikes in Somalia resulted in the “third record high” annual death toll (326) of al-Shabaab jihadis, the New York Times learned from the Pentagon. This year, al-Shabaab fatalities are on track to eclipse those from 2018.
Soon after taking office, Trump issued an executive order to escalate U.S. efforts against al-Shabaab, a move that ended former President Barack Obama-era restrictions.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) welcomed the move.
During the hearing on Thursday, Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) pointed out:
The U.S. has dramatically increased airstrikes to counter al-Shabaab in Somalia since April of 2017. We carried out more airstrikes in Somalia in the last nine months of 2017 than in the five years from 2012 to 2016. Then there were 47 in 2018 and almost 30 just in the first quarter of 2019.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis have established a growing presence in Somalia, but its rival al-Shabaab remains the most potent group in the region.
Late last year, the Institute for Economics and Peace’s (IEP) Global Terrorism Index (GTI) revealed that Africa is home to half of the top ten countries with the highest increase in the number of terror-linked fatalities from 2016 to 2017 — Somalia, Egypt, Central African Republic, Mali, and Kenya.
“The country with the largest total increase in terrorism compared to the prior year was Somalia where the number of deaths rose by 708, a 93 percent increase,” the GTI revealed.
“Since al-Shabaab’s first external attack in 2010, the group has killed hundreds through external operations, with the most lethal attacks occurring in Kenya and Uganda,” Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, one of the top commanders in Africa, told lawmakers earlier this year.
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47 Comments
4 years ago
HURRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 years ago
Oh dear, ruthless killers are being killed!
4 years ago
Reply to
fred m
Allowing that particular anti-semtic immigrant community to grow to the point where they have representation in Congress was fabulously stupid on Minnesota’s part.
4 years ago
May I suggest she be sent to Somalia as a special envoy?
4 years ago
Reply to
Bkhuna
@Bkhuna; Only if It IS on a ONE WAY FLIGHT!!!!!!!! Call it a “LIFE TIME POSITION”. With her mouth – – the appointment might not be for long.
4 years ago
the treason is strong with this one
4 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
at least the Sith are fun fictional villains.
Omar is a real-life Sith who reports to Darth Abbas, Darth Ayatollah, and Darth Farrakhan.
4 years ago
LOOKS like Trump is carrying on what Obama started.
4 years ago
Ilhan Omar’s the blame Trump card rings hollow. Obama deployed more drones than Trump, but that isn’t even a footnote in the vacuous psyche of this treasonous woman’s admonishment of Trump. Moreover, her unmitigated, blatant support of Jihad is continuously ignored by her perfidious Party because the Democratic/Islamic Party’s proclivity is the same as Omar’s; treason, pro-Jihad, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and all that is not Islam or autocratic.
4 years ago
I cannot understand what she is complaining about, unless she can be seen to be a supporter of the two main groups that are actually Jihading the nation of Somalia to its destruction. She should be supporting all of America’s efforts to end the reign of terror being promoted by these groups, while acknowledging that the in place government is unable to protect its people. Either she is very dumb, or she simply does not understand the need for America’s involvement. How she got elected boggles the mind.
4 years ago
Reply to
joe_neptune
Went to Mall of America>>>>WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN SOMALIA!! WE turned around and left after some women in our group were cat called and flat out insulted by these savages!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
……answer: by Obama bringing in people to change the voters…they voted in “their kind.”
What’s puzzling is everyone seems so surprised that when you bring in hordes of foreigners…..they vote for their “kind.”
4 years ago
What the hell is an “african” doing on a U.S. Committee. Drone the ENEMY witch.
4 years ago
so what? She should be droned too!
4 years ago
Remove Rashida Tlaib and Ilan Omar from Office NOW for their Antisemitism and Anti-Israel-Yisrael / Anti-Zionism / Anti-Christian and Jewish People / Anti-USA Constitution and Capitalism!!
Their Antisemitism is Anti-Jewish and Christian People!!
Am Yisrael-Chai Adonai Forevermore Israel-Yisrael and Our Judeo Christian Nation USA!!
Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ), YSIC o/
Kristi Ann
4 years ago
Aren’t the jihadis there to die? Then Trump is helping them all go to their 72 virgin goats. To bad we can’t send out muslim politicians over there to help guide the kill shots in. The only good muslim is a dead muslim!
4 years ago
Drone some sense into em, I say! I mean, what’s the big deal? They go straight to Muslim heaven, right? So they’re literally better off dead.
4 years ago
NO, now the WHOLE FEMALE CAMEL IS IN THE TENT WITH THIS IDIOT SITTING IN CONGRESS INSTITUTING SEDITIION UPON THIS COUNTRY! NOTHING BUT AN ISIS INFILTRATOR IN OUR GOVT. TOTALLY WRONG!
4 years ago
Please EXPEL these Mouslems. Everyday they will just RANT how bad the white man and will use their seats of power NOT to represent you or your Constitution.
4 years ago
Oh, so she’s an “African” on the committee. She’s supposed to be an American.
So, so sick of her, her hatred of this country. She openly berates and insults this country while walking the Halls of Congress and screams islamophobia if anyone confronts her on it.
Omar doesn’t deserve to be in Congress. She should be brought up on charges of sedition, removed from Congress, jailed or deported.
How dare the Democrats support this piece of garbage..
4 years ago
Reply to
Political_qrm
…..I think the Pukelosi and the Dimms will pay a price in the next election for her, Tlaib, Hurona in Hawaii, Schiff, Nadler…just to name a few…
4 years ago
enemy inside
4 years ago
Reply to
Roma Mikhasev
Savages !!! How can anyone approve of this disgusting way of life. Do we, the people, want this kind of society here? Well that’s what’s coming if the country doesn’t stop these creatures from coming into the USA.
4 years ago
How in world did all these Muslims in Michigan and Minnesota get to be citizens so fast. It take other years to become citizens…
4 years ago
Reply to
larry
…..corrupt politicians and illegal voting….that’s the recipe for changing a country.
4 years ago
Reply to
larry
How?? Obama. The DNC. The e/GOP under Paul Ryan.
These traitors have an agenda that transcends patriotism, the rule of law and national security.
4 years ago
Reply to
larry
0bama smuggled them in on night flights with new papers and Welfare, Food stamps, Housing paid and a stipend to hold them over for YEARS!!!!!!!
4 years ago
My sentiments exactly.
4 years ago
This is what happens when voting districts get packed with “refugees” …they change the voting outcomes. Right now it’s Omar, Ellison, Tlaib, and others that hate America and dedicated to bringing her down…..foreigners running our country.
Same with “new Americans”….slowly, but surely, we will have more and more of these America haters in our Congress….
I want to know what happened to candidate Trump’s idea of creating a safe space in the ME and sending Obama’s “refugees” back to live in their own country?
4 years ago
If she is so concerned about her former country why doesn’t she go back?
4 years ago
There is a Rodent in the House..
4 years ago
Other than the cost of the drones that are used I fail to see what her gripe is?
4 years ago
Typical stunned cow. Muslims kill humans and she is offended because the humans fight back?
4 years ago
Let me understand. America now has a ALT-LEFT muslema in the now (DNC)=DemocRATic Nationalist Communist Party criticizing America for dispatching THUGS in Africa who have SLAUGHTERED village after village of Christians and those who REFUSE to SURRENDER to the BARBARIAN CULT of PIECES! It IS time to ISOLATE THIS GRIFTER of a TRAMP and REJECT Its TOKEN Citizenship, which she hates, and EJECT It from “congress” and DEPORT It from America POST HASTE.
4 years ago
Good!!! Jihadists should be eliminated from this planet! Why? Because it is an evil ideology based on satanic verses in the quran!! This makes the world unsafe and ruin the civilization!!
4 years ago
This woman has made it clear that she is an enemy of our country and it’s society. She shouldn’t be allowed to stay here, much less be a political leader !!!!
4 years ago
And not a word, not a complaint from the powerful Jewish communtiy in Hollywood
where Jewish celebrities keep trashing Trump while giving Tlaib and the little Somali rat
a free pass. What gives? Just what are their priorities? Who will hold them accountable?
