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Africa Horn
US Drone Strike In Somalia Kills ‘Several’ Al-Shabaab Militants
2017-11-12
[RADIOSHABELLE] A dronezap in Somalia carried out by the United States military Friday has killed "several" al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
bad boys.

The U.S. Africa Command said in a statement that the strike occurred in Lower Shabelle region, some 20 miles north of the country’s capital, Mogadishu.

This is the 23rd Arclight airstrike the U.S. military said it has carried out this year against the Al Qaeda-linked bad boy group and the far smaller 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 Somalia.

The Trump administration approved expanded military operations earlier this year against bully boyz in the Horn of Africa nation.

In March, President Trump signed a command allowing the military authorization to carry out Arclight airstrikes in Somalia against the bad boy group, ABC News reported.

Previously, the military was not allowed to conduct Arclight airstrikes against the jihadist group unless the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
or U.S.-backed Somali government troops were being attacked.

Posted by:Fred

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