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US Airstrike Against Islamic State Group In Somalia Kills 1
[RADIOSHABELLE] The U.S. military says it has carried out an Arclight airstrike against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in northeastern Somalia that killed one krazed killer.

The statement from the U.S. Africa Command says the Arclight airstrike was carried out Monday afternoon in coordination with Somalia’s government.

The United States early this month began targeting the small but growing presence of the Islamic State group in Somalia.

The Trump administration early this year approved expanded military efforts against Death Eaters in the Horn of Africa nation, primarily the homegrown and al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
Many of the Islamic State group fighters, who are said to number around 200, defected from al-Shabaab.


Posted by: Fred 2017-11-28
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