representative ilan omar leading the charge in this letter writing campaign but many feel that simply writing a letter is not nearly enough to reign in africa as dangerous operations in the region one of those as to who is the the african team of the black alliance for peace and as a coordinator for baps us out of africa network he joins us now to discuss afrikaans operations in somalia n. his issues with representative omar's response to the pentagon. moves in the region thank you for joining us today. thank you for having me 1st just what have ben i mean let's get this out the way 1st what do we know have been the cat the casualty rates from u.s. operations in somalia since 2007 and what is been the effect of abercrombie's presence in that country in the region. yes. that is essentially the colonization of africa by the u.s. in a positive and scramble for africa which is pretty certain limits to what the european power is very close. in 800 so. i guess air war is in n.c. international reported were the since 2007 in. there been any between 71 and in the united states was there were