The Pentagon has reported multiple strikes against “ISIS militants” inside Somalia on Friday, beginning at midnight and continuing to 11 am. These are the first US strikes within Somalia to be explicitly aimed at ISIS.
Details on the incident are still scant. US African Command (AFRICOM) says the strikes were carried out with coordination from the Somali government. Six missiles fired from drones hit the remote Puntland village of Buqa.
Locals from a nearby town said the attack sent villagers and livestock fleeing into the countryside. The US reported that they killed “several terrorists” in the attacks, offering no indication of who they were or how they were identified as such.
US strikes have been common in Somalia this year, but previously have all been targeted at al-Shabaab. A small al-Shabaab splinter group is believed to be the “ISIS in Somalia” faction, and is believed to be in Puntland, though the US offered no indication why this particular village was the target.
ISIS terrrorists; the troublesome neighbors of a powerful Somali official; or a village built over a resource wanted by a Western multi-national corporation? Who knows? They’re dead now.
doesn’t sound like you have much faith in their honesty / How would we ever know if the only news we get is fake news ..
If that was the case they’d have been dead for two decades. This is ‘practice’.
Trump is hitting ISIS back “10 times harder” in Somalia, not in Uzbekhistan where the latest ISIS attacker originated, or in Florida or New Jersey or Ohio where he is supposed to have been ‘radicalised’.
This may be new for Trump but the reality for Somalis is no different from similar attacks going on for the past 30+ years.
wouldn’t it be smarter to get the Somalian terrorist out of Minnesota rather than going over to Africa and making more terrorists mad to bring to the USA as displaced refugees . I don’t think the NWOers make much sense . DO you ?
The Somali government- I wonder who elected them? Since the 2006 entry of GWBush’s saviors, nothing has gone well for the people, but why would the US terror-team care?
Coming soon “Blackhawk Down 2 – The American Terrorism of Innocents Continues.”
you should offer proof when making an assertion
And now, the US is advising all non-essential diplomats out of Mogadishu after receiving threats.