军事撤退之后骚乱增加，国外的美军对那些试图进入索马里的杰哈德圣战者进行监视和拦截，肯尼亚和埃塞俄比亚则防止骚乱越过这一地区向外转移。
As unrest mounted with these military retreats, offshore US forces monitored and intercepted jihadists who sought to enter Somalia, while Kenya and Ethiopia blocked the unrest from metastasizing across the region.