US Airstikes on Somalia
by jama Monday, Jan. 08, 2007 at 7:26 PM

US Gunship fired airstrikes on Somalia today, killing a large amount of people

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Government sources said the airstrikes near Ras Kamboni and various other places near the Kenyan border targeted "terror suspects", thought to be behind the bombing of U.S. Embassies. The village of Badel was eliminated. Among these "terror suspects" was at least one child. There was no confirmation weather the suspects were among the dead. The aircraft had taken off at the U.S. military base in Djibuti.

"Absolutely a lot of people were killed. So many dead people were lying in the area, but we do not know who is who, but the raid was a success," somali government spokesman Dinari said.

Somalia's president said that the U.S. was right to launch airstrikes. "The U.S. has a right to bombard terrorist suspects who attacked its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania," President Abdullahi Yusuf told journalists in the capital, Mogadishu. (What right?)

Somalia is de facto under occupation by Ethiopia, which has promised to withdraw its troops within two weeks.

The 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed more than 250 people. The 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya killed 15.

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