U.S. Strikes Al Qaeda In Somalia
Hoo Yah! Kickin some bad guy butt!
A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.
The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reports. Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people.
The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and sources say a lot of bodies were seen on the ground after the strike, but there is as yet, no confirmation of the identities.
The gunship flew from its base in Dijibouti down to the southern tip of Somalia, Martin reports, where the al Qaeda operatives had fled after being chased out of the capital of Mogadishu by Ethiopian troops backed by the United States.
Once they started moving, the al Qaeda operatives became easier to track, and the U.S. military started preparing for an air strike, using unmanned aerial drones to keep them under surveillance and moving the aircraft carrier Eisenhower out of the Persian Gulf toward Somalia. But when the order was given, the mission was assigned to the AC-130 gunship operated by the U.S. Special Operations command.
If the attack got the operatives it was aimed at, reports Martin, it would deal a major blow to al Qaeda in East Africa.
We got the ones responsible for the Embassy bombings! Payback!
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Posted by Jay on January 8, 2007 7:54 pm
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With all due respect to Mr. Johnny Cash…
Sing it to em Johnny
I see the gunships coming
they’re flyin round the bend
I ain’t seen that shock and awe
since I don’t know when
I’m stuck in Mogadishu
Trying to make a run
But Uncle Sam just got here
This won’t be no fun.
When I was just a young towelhead
my momma told be son
Don’t grow up to be an infidel
go learn to play with guns
But we tried to force Sharia
Just to wage jihad
But Uncle Sam just got here
And he shot, shot, shot
That is an act of war against a sovereign country. I hope we had permission of the U.N. puppet government that Ethiopia helped to install. If we did then it was justified.
The papers this morning said in big bold print “Many dead’ in Somalia- I can just see the reaction of the leftist anti-American press now “The U.S murders civilians” We’re damned if we help damned if we don’t help in the press’ mind I’m afraid. Kerwin- We’ve been secretly working with Ethiopia for some time now in this situation- I can’t imagine we didn’t have their permission to help.