U.S. Navy Destroyer Fires at al Qaeda Target in Somalia

A U.S. Navy destroyer off the coast of northern Somalia Friday fired on a suspected al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, sources confirmed to CNN... There was no immediate word on the results of the attack, which was carried out using one of the destroyer's 5-inch guns.
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>>> WNBC.com has this report...
The U.S. Navy struck several suspected terrorist cells along the northern coast of Somalia Friday evening, according to NBC News... U.S. officials told NBC News that the U.S. destroyer USS Chafee fired 20 five-inch rounds at two or three targets, including the country's chief al-Qaida operative...
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>>> AllAfrica.com has this report Saturday morning, June 2, 2007...
US Navy Strikes Al-Qaeda Hideouts in North Somalia as Two Officials Slain

>>> Yahoo News has this AP report that goes in part like this... A local radio station quoted Puntland's leader, Ade Muse, as saying that his forces had battled with the extremists for hours before U.S. ships arrived and used their cannons. Muse said five of his troops were wounded, but that he had no information about casualties among the extremists... A task force of coalition ships, called CTF-150, is permanently based in the northern Indian Ocean and patrols the Somali coast in hopes of intercepting international terrorists. U.S. destroyers are normally assigned to the task force and patrol in pairs...
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U.S. hits militants' Somali base
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