3 March 2008
Washington, DC — The United States bombed a town in southern Somalia on Monday in a strike on suspected terrorists, United States defense officials told news agencies. Six people are reported dead.
Three missiles struck a building in Dobley, a town four miles from the border with Kenya, the Associated Press reported. Remnants of Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts, an organization that ruled much of the southern part of the country until late 2006, reportedly took the town last week. The British Broadcasting Corporation is reporting that the missile strike killed six and wounded 20.
Pentagon spokesperson Bryan Whitman told journalists that the attack targeted a "known al-Qaida terrorist."
Earlier, in the day, a U.S. military official told the AP in Washington, "It was a deliberate, precise strike against a known terrorist and his associates." Reuters reported that a U.S. defense official said that the strike targeted a building that is known to be frequently used by terrorists.
A witness told the AP that three planes were involved in the attack. "We woke up with a loud and big bang and when we came out we found our neighbor's house completely obliterated as if no house existed here," Fatuma Abdullahi said.
Reuters spoke with a man in Kismayu, 140 miles north of Dobley, who said the building destroyed in the attack belonged to him. He claimed his daughter had been wounded in the attack.
"We do not know whether the missiles were fired by the American AC-130 plane which is still flying over the city. All we know they dropped from the sky," Mohamed Nurie Salad said. He was planning on returning to Dobley to assess the damage.
In January 2007, the U.S. launched two airstrikes targeting suspected terrorists in the area around Dobley.
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There are many of us here, in the United States who have known for sometime that our government has been hijacked by terrorists - real terrorists who answer only to themselves - certainly not to the directives of the American people; real terrorists who go by the names of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Chertoff, and so on. The real terrorists have committed untold war crimes by murdering innocent men, women and children all over the world, including their own; the real terrorists torture, despite laws/conventions to the contrary; the real terrorists lie to their countrymen and bomb their own citizens; the real terrorists bring nothing but shame upon their people. We are appalled, outraged, embarrassed and ashamed of them and the acts they have committed in our name. The real terrorists and corporate whores have taken over our country and run it into the dirt, all the while committing crimes worse than treason. The real terrorists have taken our constitution and torn it to shreds while too many of us have sat by and watched American Idol or Wife Swap; the real terrorists build concentration camps in our country hoping to proclaim marshall law and detain their own citizens; the real terrorists have tapped our phones, read our mail and spied upon us; the real terrorists have tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. The people of the United States are, to a degree, victims, as well, and we hang our heads in shame and beg for the forgiveness of the rest of the world.
This is one of those predatory attitudes of the US where they show with pride how worthless the lives of black Africans is considered to be to the US that the US can, at their whims and caprices, destroy as many as possible since, being the super power nobody dares raise up his voice in this our present ADVANCED civilization. Pentagon spokesperson Bryan Whitman proudly said that the attack was targeted an Al Qaeda terrorist but six people,s lives have been wasted. Will the US pay compensation for the non terrost they have slaughtered or those killed do not have the normal human rights which is touted as part the celebrated American democracy? It is believed that the bombs used to kill these unfortunate black Africans are the American smart bombs that went straight to the Al Qaeda terrorist and so to really come clean to Somalians who are in constant fear of being killed anytime by the US bomb or other Africans fearing for their lives when the AFRICOM will start raining down bombs in the same manner in the very near future, it is very necessary for the US to give details of the Al Qaeda terrorist that has been the target of the attack. Sometimes one feels that at this stage of human civilization, ther should be an international law that protects smaller countries being attacked at will and that makes human life sufficiently sacred not to be expunged by a predator from another country.