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US Airstrike In Somalia Kills 4 Of Al-Shabab, Destroys Bomb
2017-12-29
[RadioShabelle] The U.S. military says a new Arclight airstrike in Somalia has killed four members of the al-Shabaab
... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia...
murderous Moslem group and destroyed a vehicle carrying explosives near the capital.

The statement from the U.S. Africa Command says the airstrike Wednesday evening about 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Mogadishu prevented the bomb from being used against residents of the capital.

Al-Shabaab was blamed for the massive truck bombing in Mogadishu in October that killed 512 people.

The U.S. has carried out 35 dronezaps in Somalia this year against al-Shabaab and a small but growing presence of 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-linked fighters.

The Trump administration early this year approved expanded military operations in the Horn of Africa nation.

The new U.S. statement says they assess that no non-combatants were killed in the strike.
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