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America, world police?
CNN BREAKING NEWS
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. aerial gunship has attacked suspected al Qaeda targets in southern Somalia, a senior Pentagon official said Monday.
The AC-130 flew its mission within the last 24 hours, the official told CNN. The operation was launched based on intelligence that al Qaeda operatives were in that location, but there was no immediate indication of how successful the strike had been.
Additionally, the official said, the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has moved within striking distance of Somalia, but its jets have not been put to use.
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Interestingly though in other developments:
BBC: Somali leader arrives in capital
Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, amid tight security.
He flew in on his first visit since Islamists fled advancing Ethiopian forces and interim government soldiers.
Gunmen fired at Ethiopian forces in Mogadishu overnight, after two died in anti-Ethiopian protests on Saturday.
It is unclear if the violence is linked to the Islamists, who threatened an Iraq-style insurgency. Some Islamist leaders are in Yemen calling for talks.
Somalia's president and the prime minister, Mohammed Ali Ghedi, are at the former presidential palace in southern Mogadishu, Villa Somalia, for discussions with clan elders about the faltering disarmament process.
The capital awash with guns, and since being elected Somalia's interim president in 2004, Mr Yusuf has always said it was too dangerous for him to set up a government in Mogadishu.
read more at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6240269.stm
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'Under peaceful conditions the warlike man attacks himself' - Nietzsche
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