Kersplatt!
*Scroll down for links to updates and round ups through Tuesday*
The sound Islamofacists make when an AC-130 gunship places its attention on them.
CBS: U.S. Strikes Al Qaeda In Somalia
(CBS/AP) A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.
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.
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The gunship flew from its base in Dijibouti down to the southern tip of Somalia, Martin reports, where the al Qaeda operatives had fled after being chased out of the capital of Mogadishu by Ethiopian troops backed by the United States.
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.
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Works for me.
More photos of the AC-130 here.
*Updates 01.09.07*
For those who may have missed the news about this or would like some background, Pajamas media has more info and analysis here and updates up till Tuesday here.
This item in the updates unfortunately summing up Euroweanie views on the matter:
European Commission views killing of terrorists as “not helpful.”
Mary Katharine Ham, filling in at Michelle Malkin's blog has a round up here.
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