***BOOM*** US Bombs Somalia: Dec. 29th, 2014

[presence]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Release No: NR-633-14
December 29, 2014

Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby on Today's Airstrike in Somalia

The U.S. military conducted an airstrike in Somalia today against the al-Shabaab network. The target of the strike was a senior al-Shabaab leader. The strike took place in the vicinity of Saakow, Somalia. At this time, we do not assess there to be any civilian or bystander casualties. We are assessing the results of the operation and will provide additional information, when appropriate, as details become available.

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=17092&source=GovDelivery



Approximately 200 miles west of Mogadishu; Saakow population 65,000.

1. US launches air strike in Somalia targeting al Shabaab senior leader Reuters‎ - 18 hours ago
2. US launches airstrike on Somali militant leader – Pentagon RT‎ - 18 hours ago
3. Pentagon: Airstrike targeted a terror leader in Somalia USA TODAY‎ - 18 hours ago

It was an assassination:

Somalia Says Al-Shabaab Intelligence Head Killed in U.S. Strike
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor Dec 30, 2014 4:00 PM ET


A U.S. air-strike in southern Somalia killed the intelligence chief of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab Islamist militant Group three months after a similar attack eliminated the group’s leader, Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency said.
Abdishakur Tahliil, was killed near Somalia’s southern town of Saakow, the agency said in a statement yesterday. Two other senior officials were also killed in the attack, NISA said, without Identifying them. Earlier, Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright said in an e-mailed statement the attack took place yesterday about 325 kilometers (202 miles) west of the capital, Mogadishu. He didn’t identify the target.


“A joint operation between the Somalia National Intelligence and Security Agency and the U.S.successfully carried out a surgical attack on Al-Shabaab’s intelligence chief in which he and two other senior officials of the terrorist group perished,” Nisa said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...gets-senior-al-shabaab-leader-in-somalia.html

 

[jmdrake]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Somalia.

 

[Origanalist]

Lets just nuke the world and get it over with.

 

[presence]

Anyone else notice how the term "bombed" has been sanitized by the pentagon to "airstike" in all of our recent bombing campaigns? "Assassination" likewise sanitized to "strike".

 

[TheTexan]

the al-Shabaab network

Sounds terroristy

 

[Ronin Truth]

Somalia not having a government just might give some other folks some really scary ideas.

 

[brushfire]

Doesnt everyone get democracy on the 17th day of Christmas?

 

[Todd]

Can't bring Freedom to Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria. Let's try to bring it to Somalia.

 

[twomp]

Anyone else notice how the term "bombed" has been sanitized by the pentagon to "airstike" in all of our recent bombing campaigns?

I think the new hip term the pentagon will use for 2015 will be "kinetic massage." No happy ending.

 

[Acala]

Mission accomplished because there aren't hundreds of other members of that organization waiting to step into the shoes of the guys we just killed. Am I right?

 

[phill4paul]

Mission accomplished because there aren't hundreds of other members of that organization waiting to step into the shoes of the guys we just killed. Am I right?

Mission accomplished because there is a new place to insert the displaced troops from Afghanistan.

 

[TheTexan]

I'm sure it's completely unrelated, but somalia probably has a lot of undiscovered oil

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I am so sick of the US bombing Somalia. 20 years now? Seriously?