Fox News just reported that the U.S. has launched an airstrike on a suspected Al Qaeda target in Somalia, using an AC-130 Gunship...
This news comes just days after an audio tape came out by Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri urging Somali Islamists to launch an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign of suicide and other forms of attacks against Ethiopian forces in Somalia. I did a short post on it HERE.
FoxNews.com is reporting... The U.S. could be taking advantage of terrorists that have flown their hideout, as Al Qaeda operatives taking cover in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu were likely chased out when Ethiopian forces cleared out Islamists who had taken power there... The move marks the first time the U.S. has mounted a mission in Somalia since forces pulled out in 1994, two years after entering on a mission to feed starving people there...
CBS news.com is reporting... 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... Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people...
I’d have to say our President just sent one hell of a message to Ayman al-Zawahri and the other terrorist of the world. A message saying... “I’m still here -- I’m still in charge -- YOU CAN NOT HIDE!!!!!!!!!”
Note: Some of you might not know the firepower of these Gunships. They are some bad suckers... that one doesn’t want to be on the wrong side of... Here’s actual footage of an AC-130 Gunship attack on a stronghold in Afghanistan back in 2003. Click it out HERE
More to come as news comes out...
I sure hope CENTCOM and DoD release the video. Our enemies need to see what can happen to them...
AubreyJ.........
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