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Africa Horn
U.S. And Somali Strikes On Shabab Said To Kill Nearly 100 Militants
2017-11-13
[RADIOSHABELLE] Nearly 100 members of the Shabaab, the Qaeda-linked bully boy group in Somalia, were killed in separate strikes this week, according to Somali and American officials.

More than a dozen bandidos forces of Evil were killed in a United States Arclight airstrike 20 miles north of the capital of Mogadishu, according to Samantha Reho, a spokeswoman with the United States Africa Command. The Friday strike was carried out in coordination with the Somali government, she said in an email.

It was the 23rd American Arclight airstrike in the country this year, and the second in 24 hours. On Thursday, Arclight airstrikes killed "several holy warriors" in the Bay region, about 100 miles west of Mogadishu, according to a statement from the Africa Command.

Separately, the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency killed 81 Shabaab fighters earlier this week in Jilib, in southern Somalia, government officials said on Saturday.

The state security forces "planted mines in a holy warrior bomb-making site in Jilib district," Abdirahman Omar Osman, the Minister of Information, said by telephone.

Jilib is a Shabaab stronghold about 75 miles north of the port city of Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
, where bandidos forces of Evil attacked a Somali army base in September.

Mr. Osman claimed the attack "destroyed all kabooms" and "technical vehicles" Shabaab had stored at the site. He declined to give further details of the attack, citing a pending investigation.

Posted by:Fred

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