U.S. Attacks Al Qaeda Terrorist Targets in Somalia

U.S. Attacks Al Qaeda Terrorist Targets

in Somalia
Monday, March 03, 2008

Defense Department officials today confirmed an attack against an al Qaeda terrorist in Somalia yesterday.

“On March 2, the United States conducted an attack against a known al Qaeda terrorist in southern Somalia,” Bryan Whitman, Pentagon spokesman, said.

“As we have repeatedly said, we will continue to pursue terrorist activities and their operations wherever we may find them,” he said.

Whitman said the United States works closely with partners in the region in the conduct of military operations.

“We share common goals with respect to fighting terrorism,” he said. “We will continue to seek out, identify, capture and, if necessary, kill terrorists where they plan their activities, carry out their operations or seek safe harbor.”

Whitman said these are not the first U.S. military operations in Somalia. No other details were made available.

From a news release by DoD’s American Forces Press Service and was written by Fred W. Baker III
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IHT.com has this take on the strike and it starts off like this... U.S. naval forces fired missiles into southern Somalia on Monday, aiming at what the Defense Department called terrorist targets... Residents and the police in the southern town of Dobley said a home had been destroyed and at least eight people, including four children, seriously injured. The U.S. has carried out strikes in Somalia in the past year amid fears that the country could become a haven for terrorists... "As we have repeatedly said, we will continue to pursue terrorist activities and their operations wherever we may find them," a U.S. military spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said in Washington...
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U.S. directs airstrike at terrorist targets in southern Somalia