by Michelle Shephard, Toronto Star, Canada – Tall, lanky, wearing aviator shades, a button-down shirt open over a white undershirt, standing in the punishing morning sun. He is one of Somalia’s U.S.-trained elite fighters. Few here would know the 23-year-old’s role as part of a new secretive Special Forces unit known as “Danab,” which means lightning.
A look at foreign involvement in Somalia’s counterterrorism units. Gone is “Black Hawk Down” era, when western forces steered clear of war-torn nation.
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