Pentagon investigations into al Shabaab attack find ‘inadequate understanding’

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The Department of Defense released the findings of two investigations into a January 2020 terrorist attack in Kenya that claimed the lives of three Americans.

Two concurrent investigations, one of which was an independent review, found that troops at the Manda Bay base were ill-prepared to fend off a terror attack through “complacency,” blaming the shortcomings on that, not criminal activity.

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