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U.S.: 40 Islamists Killed in Four Days of Somalia Strikes
2017-11-15
[IsraelTimes] The Pentagon said Monday that U.S. forces had killed 40 Shabaab and 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....
fighters in a series of strikes on Somalia that began late last week.

The U.S. military has launched five strikes since Thursday on jihadist positions in the Horn of Africa country, killing 36 members of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab group and four from the Islamic State group, said Colonel Rob Manning, a front man.

"In coordination with the federal government of Somalia, U.S. forces conducted five Arclight airstrikes in Somalia against al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
and ISIS, from November 9 to the 12th, removing more than 40 Death Eaters from the battlefield," Manning said.

The strikes were carried out by the U.S. Africa Command, and followed two devastating attacks attributed to Islamic gunnies in Mogadishu that left about 385 people dead last month.

The surge in U.S. operations came after President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
in March loosened the constraints on the U.S. military to take actions against alleged Death Eaters when they judge it is needed, without seeking specific White House approval.

A pair of U.S. dronezaps that killed several gunnies on November 3 marked the first time American forces hit Islamic State group fighters in Somalia.
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