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| DrunkenMaster16 |
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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| Silky Johnson |
CE RE EAL! YEAH! The most important meal of the motherin day, yeah!
Oh wait, wrong thread. |
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| Trance Nutter |
Somalia has been in war for years. Mogadishu especially, nothing new.
Black Hawk Down was in Somalia so its not the first time the US have tried to go in |
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| DrunkenMaster16 |
| America really doesn't get it... let the people fight their own battles, they (Americans fought for their independence why can't these people?) show support of democracy, don't force it onto people. They are seriously looking for innocent people to be killed in retaliation.. heck they are killing innocent people by dropping so many bombs. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
CE RE EAL! YEAH! The most important meal of the motherin day, yeah!
Oh wait, wrong thread. |
Yah totally, this thread sucks. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by DrunkenMaster16
America really doesn't get it... let the people fight their own battles, they (Americans fought for their independence why can't these people?) show support of democracy, don't force it onto people. They are seriously looking for innocent people to be killed in retaliation.. heck they are killing innocent people by dropping so many bombs. |
Without French support (and troops), America never would have gained its independence.
/history lesson. |
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| Marc Summers |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Without French support (and troops), America never would have gained its independence.
/history lesson. |
There were a lot of terrorists, we would have gotten it eventually. |
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| DrunkenMaster16 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Without French support (and troops), America never would have gained its independence.
/history lesson. |
you said it.. SUPPORT. America was trying to get their freedom... these countries as im seeing are either not bother'd or not enuff of the people want change to do anything about it. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| yeah, lets just leave countries to tear themselves apart! idiot. |
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| DrunkenMaster16 |
| better than having 1/2 the population hate you... wait I mean world. GJ USA! |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by DrunkenMaster16
you said it.. SUPPORT. America was trying to get their freedom... these countries as im seeing are either not bother'd or not enuff of the people want change to do anything about it. |
You've exposed how little you know about Somalia. Congrats. |
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