January 08, 2007
Via CBS News: 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.Rusty has speculated that Bin Laden is in Africa. One can hope.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....
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.
But USA Today reportedon Dec. 31 that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Abu Taha al-Sudani were the men thought to be hiding there.
USA Today Dec 31:Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said government troops were going after three al-Qaeda terror suspects wanted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in east Africa that killed more than 250 people.Looks like the problem is solved.He said Islamic militants in Kismayo, Somalia's third-largest city, were sheltering accused bombers Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Abu Taha al-Sudani...
..."We would like to capture or kill these guys at any cost," Gedi told the AP. "They are the root of the problem."
More here from Mary Katharine Ham at Michelle Malkin's blog.
Update: My condolences to Steve Innskeep, who was audibly depressed over the defeat of the African Taliban. I thought he was going to cry. The sad, sad, Yoyo Ma cello music was a nice touch though.
Update: We're doomed, Doomed I say!
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Posted by: Greyrooster at January 08, 2007 09:48 PM (ovoks)
The fucker is dead.
Rusty, you're breathing too much LA smog...
Posted by: Speaking for the Choir at January 08, 2007 10:31 PM (b0FZu)
Posted by: Please Eat My Pies at January 08, 2007 11:22 PM (ge3Yt)
Posted by: THANOS at January 09, 2007 12:32 AM (v6Xh1)
I would hope so, cause I'm tired of GW being a big wimp! He has become a doormat president, and not the fighter I thought I was voting for.
"Good job US Military!"
THANOS has that right fur dam shure! Blast the vermin where you can!
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at January 09, 2007 01:05 AM (2OHpj)
Posted by: Fred Fry at January 09, 2007 08:08 AM (JXdhy)
Posted by: Darth Odie at January 09, 2007 09:35 AM (YHZAl)
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Was wanted apparently, because word has it he and Fazul are deader than disco.
According to the ever reliable AP, American Helicopters are firing on terrorists on the Somalia/Kenya border and other areas in Somalia. Fox News reports that the terrorists are "scurrying like rats" in an attempt to escape American wrath.
The pussies are running, but they cant hide. Escape by sea is blocked by the US navy, and Ethiopia and Kenya are guarding their borders. The news media aren't sharp enough to consider the border with Djibouti/Eritrea, but it's logical to assume U.S. Special Operations Command is plenty sharp enough. That border is probably under aerial surveillance and any attempt to flee that way will hopefully be dealt with in like fashion.
It looks like the skinny terrorists were caught with their pants down, and killed en masse. Now that's a video I would like to see.
Pentagon "sources" have "confirmed" that some Al Qaeda members were killed in the raid last night.
Go Bush! Your political capital is all spent, so you have nothing to lose. Kill the fuckers.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at January 09, 2007 09:55 AM (abVz3)
Posted by: Greyrooster at January 09, 2007 08:32 PM (w+w6p)
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