Posted January 14, 200718 yr As in most cases in films they do sequels, has it now transferred to Bush’s war on terror THE AMERICANS called it a "surgical strike". No civilians were injured, they claimed, let alone killed. Eyewitnesses said that the bombing was "indiscriminate" and more than 30 people died. Some 13 years after withdrawing in haste following the disastrous Black Hawk Down mission, America was back in Somalia and a new front in the global war on terror had opened up in the most dramatic of fashions. A huge AC-130 gunship pummelled the sleepy fishing village of Ras Kamboni, near the Kenyan border, on Monday. Firing 1800 rounds a minute from a six- barrel Gatling gun, the strike obliterated everything that stood in its path. Its targets were three senior al-Qaeda operatives that the US has been tracking in Somalia for several years. Comoros national Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is accused of masterminding the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam which killed 225 people. Abu Taha al-Sudani of Sudan is thought to be al-Qaeda's chief in east Africa, while Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is wanted in connection with the 2002 attacks in Momabsa against a hotel and an airliner. As the Islamists fled in disarray, the US took the opportunity to attack. But, despite initial reports that Fazul had been killed, it soon emerged that none of the three had in fact died. The US tried to put a positive spin on the mission, claiming several "al-Qaeda affiliates" had been killed. What next, George W Bush playing the new Rambo, launching an attack on the Taliban?
January 14, 200718 yr As in most cases in films they do sequels, has it now transferred to Bush’s war on terror THE AMERICANS called it a "surgical strike". No civilians were injured, they claimed, let alone killed. Eyewitnesses said that the bombing was "indiscriminate" and more than 30 people died. Some 13 years after withdrawing in haste following the disastrous Black Hawk Down mission, America was back in Somalia and a new front in the global war on terror had opened up in the most dramatic of fashions. A huge AC-130 gunship pummelled the sleepy fishing village of Ras Kamboni, near the Kenyan border, on Monday. Firing 1800 rounds a minute from a six- barrel Gatling gun, the strike obliterated everything that stood in its path. Its targets were three senior al-Qaeda operatives that the US has been tracking in Somalia for several years. Comoros national Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is accused of masterminding the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam which killed 225 people. Abu Taha al-Sudani of Sudan is thought to be al-Qaeda's chief in east Africa, while Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is wanted in connection with the 2002 attacks in Momabsa against a hotel and an airliner. As the Islamists fled in disarray, the US took the opportunity to attack. But, despite initial reports that Fazul had been killed, it soon emerged that none of the three had in fact died. The US tried to put a positive spin on the mission, claiming several "al-Qaeda affiliates" had been killed. What next, George W Bush playing the new Rambo, launching an attack on the Taliban? seems the US seems to think it has a license to bomb any country it wishes and try and hide behind the "War on Terror" excuses
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