National Security Council Announces Somalia’s Got Our Back

The National Security Council announced another addition to President Obama’s Syria coalition a short time ago:

@US National Security Council said at it's Twitter "#Somalia has signed on to the September 6 Joint Statement on #Syria: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/09/statement-additional-countries-support-september-6-joint-statement-syria …"

That brings the Sept. 6 joint statement on Syria up to 35 signatories, agreeing that Bashar al-Assad bears responsibility for the Aug. 21 attack and supporting “efforts undertaken by the United States and other countries to reinforce the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.”

Incidentally, the Obama administration is running a bit of a secret war in Somalia. Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab controls a sizable chunk of the country.

Al-Shabaab was recently kicked off Twitter (again) for tweeting murder, but recently rejoined under a slightly different handle.

Alshabaab said in it's new Twitter "History shall remember this day as the day America was subdued, with both its prestige & pride irreparably dented. It’s an Islamic revival"