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AC-130 gunship used. 1998 embassy bombing mastermind suspected to be at the site.
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Clintonesque.
AC-130 gunship used. 1998 embassy bombing mastermind suspected to be at the site.
Apparently CBS got wind of it first, but MSNBC is burying the other 24hr networks on this one. No sign of it at all on CNN or FoxNews.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n2335451.shtml
Nicely done if they got the er.A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.
The targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reports. Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people.
Nicely done regardless.
A round of beers if they got the bas s.
I know Bush hates pounding sand, but there's nothing more that can be done at this point.
mooooooooooooooo
Nice that we're getting BACK to actually attacking people REALLY behind 9/11.
Isn't this the same type of Clinton gets hammered for yet now its nicely done? I agree nicely done, but the double standard is just ironic to me.
It's Ok when Bush does it, but no so good when Cinton does the same thing.
Or was it the other way around?
I guess it depends on who's posting the story.
It's definitely the only thing that could be done in this case. Anything more could make it look like we're piling on with the christian Ethiopians against muslim Somalis.
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 01-08-2007 at 08:14 PM.
Well, its not Clinton had very many options either. Congress nor the American public would have condoned any major invasion of Afghanistan prior to 9/11 but that always seems to be lost when people are complaining about the cruise missile attacks.
Oh sure. Everyone looks through a post 9/11 lens on his cruise missle strikes. Now here's a perfect example of the necessity five years later.
The stock footage of a C-130 Gunship blasting artillery rounds out of it's side was a lot more interesting that the helicopter circling the cruise ship in Miami earlier today.
ac-130 and sending cruise missiles are entirely different. either way, ing bomb them, machine gun the, put a ing dog on them... who cares, just kill all of them.
Its only really different if you have someone on the ground to direct the fire, otherwise the main difference is that you put pilots in harms way. Unless I'm missing something here. And who knows, maybe they had someone to direct fire, but against a predetermined target I'm not sure what advantadges you'd have with a gunship as opposed to a cruise missle.
I agree though, just ing kill them.
Yeah, it means we have flyover permission and no opposing air force.ac-130 and sending cruise missiles are entirely different
I agree, the cruise missle attack Clinton lauched is totally different from this gunship attack. You see, the computer guidance system in the cruise missles is so advanced, they've attained artificial intelligence, and when those missles found out Clinton got an extra-marital blowjob in the White House, they were distracted to the point where they couldn't concentrate on their precise coordinates.
No Clinton got nailed for cutting and running, just what the dimm-o-craps
want to do now in Iraq.
He wouldn't support the troops with armor. He just wanted them to be
meals on wheels.
Um, talk to your Republican controlled congres about that.
Oh, Clinton wasn't CinC at the time? Is that correct?
I think Xray was talking about Somalia in 93. Clinton refused to put in the proper armament and 18 U.S. troops died because of this piss poor decision. Armored troop carriers and tanks were never put on the ground. He then made the choice to leave instead of letting the troops finish the job. This is the reason for the Clinton hate when it comes to Somalia.
Clinton tried to do Somolia on the cheap and got burned. We all the saw the movie Black Hawk Down, no need to relive bad memories. There's little doubt in my mind that leaving Somolia was the right decision though. We could have killed all those bas s had we had the AC gunship at the time, but it wouldn't have mattered. The U.S. would have been stuck there, protecting desert, for years, and our armed forces would have been even further depleted today.
Corso may have a point...
KENYA-SOMALIA: Fighting halts effort to verify deadly fever
AlertnetDobley is close to the Kenyan border where fighting continues between Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) remnants and Ethiopian-backed Somali government soldiers, who have been chasing them since the UIC were forced out of Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia.
A humanitarian source in the area told IRIN on Tuesday that casualties had been reported when planes carried out air strikes in villages close to Dobley. "We have reports of 22 people killed by the bombing," he said. International media reported that the planes were American, targeting suspected al-Qaeda operatives.
"Most of those killed were in a convoy of donkeys carrying sugar to the outlying villages," which have been rendered inaccessible due to recent heavy rains, said the source, who requested anonymity. Another source told IRIN there were reports of a number of armed militia in the area. "We don't know whether they belonged to the Islamic courts or not but some people are saying that they were there."
The bombardment took place in an area known as Jiiro, a "very good pastureland, with the highest concentration of cattle in the Juba valley", said the humanitarian source, adding that whether there were militants in the area or not, "civilians had been hit".
Kill em all, and let God sort them out diplomacy.
US Intel stating 1 of the 3 targets killed.
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