Report: Suspected U.S. Airstrike Kills Foreign Al-Shabaab Fighters…
Feel good story of the day.
(BBC) — An air strike in al-Shabab-held southern Somalia has killed four people, including three foreigners, eyewitnesses have told the BBC.
The strike destroyed two vehicles in a convoy in an area known as K60 because it is around 60km (35 miles) south of the capital, Mogadishu, they say.
It is not clear who fired the missiles, reportedly shot from five helicopters.
The BBC’s Mohamed Dhore in the capital says the blast is far bigger than any carried out by Kenyan forces which have recently moved into some of the areas of southern Somalia controlled by al-Shabab.
Eyewitnesses say the missile strike at 03:00 local time (00:00 GMT) was heard many miles away.
Earlier reports said six people had been killed.
The US military, which has a base in neighbouring Djibouti, has previously carried out drone strikes in Somalia.
“That air strike is not from our end,” Kenyan army spokesman Col Cyrus Oguna told the AFP news agency.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC that some of those killed appeared to be of European or Asian origin.
Posted by ZIP on Saturday, February 25, 2012, at 5:00 pm | 
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The military is great. As soon as Ocrook is ousted, we should rehire them all.
if they had any korans in their pockets it is definitely time for an apology
And Obama apologizes for it in 3, 2, 1…..
“Eyewitnesses told the BBC that some of those killed appeared to be of European or Asian origin.”
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They should target all non-black groups in Somalia. There is no other reason for Europeans and Asians to be mingling among the mud-huts and the bombed out buildings.
Why do Islamists seem to gravitate towards the primitive? They either seek out a stone aged existence or they wreck every modern convenience.
I wonder how long before Biden says something like: “I shouldn’t say this, BUT IT WAS THE ARMY 160th SOAR NIGHTSTALKERS!”, or “HEY, EVERYBODY! THE 4th SPECIAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON RUBBED THOSE GUYS OUT!”
Carpet bombing should be the order of the day, raze all the savage lands
Only four, crap. Fire another…and another…
WE NEED MORE SMART BOMBS and DUMB BOMBS!
You mean they actually still let us kill the enemy?I am waiting for Obama to order us to drop millions of apology leaflets all over the mideast hellholes.
Apologies aside, I’m sorry we missed a few.
Another happy ending.
There was a new fella in WZ that had earlier commented on how ” unsettling” it was to watch the War Porn. Then a few weeks later after he saw enough of reality on WZ … he completely understands it now.
F N hyenas—every single one of them that pursues innocence needs to be put to pieces
The correct way of dealing with this was outline by the great Tom Kratman: get the pieces of the jihadists, do DNA scans. Go into the nearest towns to the incident, forcibly check the DNA of everyone 12 and over. Kill all family members of the jihadists. We are fighting tribalists. The way to retaliate is tribally.
I hope they were wearing those damn hoods when it happned to
Can someone tell me why we are there? Remember Libya? If we are compelled to do involve ourselves in Somalia then a “scorched earth policy” is all we should be following. Not some chickensh*t, one time, hit and run air attack. Beat them so badly they won’t think about picking up a gun again. Otherwise, stay out of it.
osama obama will get right on the apology just as soon as he finishes his daily prayes to the fairy moon god.
Nah. Probably just another workplace accident.