There is no lying my friend. If shabaab is soo powerful by killing over 150 kdf troops then they would have taken over gedo in a heartbeat. But yet gedo remains shabaab free.
It's because the attack on kdf was sanctioned by the local poeple.
Read this article:https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.stan ... trayed-kdf
The KDF themselves said the local marehan clan attacked us