US air strike ‘kills Al-Qaeda leader in Somalia’
by Mustafa Haji Abdinur
MOGADISHU (AFP) - The United States carried out an air strike in Somalia on Thursday which killed at least 10 people, including Al-Qaeda’s military leader in the war-torn country, Ethiopian officials and rebels said. The militant leader was named as Moalim Aden Hashi Ayro who trained with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and had been linked to the deaths of foreign aid workers in Somalia. He had been a target of a US air strike in 2007…
The Ethiopian government, a key US ally in Africa and the main supporter of Somalia’s embattled government, said the United States staged the raid on a house in Dhusamareb, in the Galgudud region of central Somalia.
“This attack was purely performed by the Americans,” Ethiopia’s Information Minister Berhane Hailu told AFP in Addis Ababa. “It will further weaken the cells of Al-Qaeda in Somalia. It has some value for peace and stability in Somalia.”
A war plane dropped three large bombs on the house at about 2:00 am (2300 GMT Wednesday), according to resident Jamal Mohamoud.
“We are still digging debris at the house that was totally demolished. We have so far recovered 10 bodies, including that of Ayro. Three people who were injured have been taken to hospital,” Abshir Moalim Ali, an elder in Dhusamareb told AFP.
Ayro was military leader of Shabab, a group on the US government’s terrorist list.
Via Sweetness and Light
2 comments:
And they're already getting to ready to fight on under a new leader. We are just going to have to kill the next one too.
I'm in it for the long haul is anyone else? Shut them down whatever way it takes.
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