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    1. EXCLUSIVE: Biden secretly signed an order in early May authorizing the military to redeploy 100s of Special Forces into Somalia & to target about a dozen Al Shabab leaders. Reverses Trump's last-minute decision to withdraw from Somalia. w/ @EricSchmittNYT nytimes.com/2022/05/16/us/politics/biden-military-somalia.html
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    Biden's decision revives an open-ended American counterterrorism operation that has amounted to a slow-burn war through three admins. The move stands in contrast to his decision last year to pull American forces from Afghanistan, saying that “it is time to end the forever war.”