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Kenyan airstrikes leave 22 dead in south Somalia
[Iran Press TV] Kenyan fighter jets have bombed an area southwest of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, killing at least twenty-two people, Press TV reports.Kenyan fighter jets struck the outskirts of the Irdia village near the town of Garbaharey, the capital of Gedo region and situated 528 kilometers (328 miles) southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Mohamed Hussein, a front man for the Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a group, confirmed the  ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... training base. Kenya has beefed up security along its border with Somalia since it dispatched soldiers into the conflict-plagued country last October to pursue al-Shabaab Death Eaters, which it accuses of being behind the kidnapping of several foreigners on its territory. Al-Shabaab has denied involvement. Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has said his transitional government is opposed to Kenya's military incursion into the Somali territory. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-05 |
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