US Africa Command has announced that it launched an airstrike in northeastern Somalia on Friday that it claimed killed three members of ISIS.
The command said the strike was launched in a remote region known as Dhaardaar, which is about 50 miles southeast of Boosaaso, a city on the Gulf of Aden that’s part of the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia.
AFRICOM said that its “initial assessment” found three ISIS militants were killed and no civilians were harmed. However, the command is notorious for undercounting civilian casualties, and US military operations in Somalia are shrouded in secrecy.
AFRICOM did not share any more details about the strike, so it’s unclear if the three ISIS members who were allegedly killed were the only intended targets.
The incident marks the first time AFRICOM announced an airstrike in Somalia since March, although it’s unclear if the US military reports every strike that it launches in the country. The US typically targets al-Shabaab in southern areas of Somalia, where the US-backed Mogadishu-based government’s forces operate on the ground.
AFRICOM said that the latest airstrike against ISIS was coordinated with the “Federal Government of Somalia,” referring to the government based in Mogadishu. Puntland recently withdrew its recognition of the federal government over disagreements about changes to the constitution.
Did the US coordinate with the Federal Government of Somalia for a strike in territory that's part of the autonomous state of Puntland? I suppose it doesn't matter, as far as the almighty US Empire is concerned these benighted backward blacks have neither the wherewithal much less the sophistication to question DC's decisions.
Hell, without a well-heeled lobby we ordinary Americans question US foreign policy at our own risk. We might be deemed an antisemite and out of a job the very next minute.
Only 37.5 million to kill four bad guys… (or was that 375 million?)
Does it really matter? Fire up the printing presses. Just remember Dick Cheney saying, "deficits don't matter anymore".
"AFRICOM said that its 'initial assessment' found three 'ISIS militants' were killed and no civilians were harmed." Dude! I believe it before I see it every week! But, are you sure they're not "ISIS leaders?" For some reason that sounds far more familiar.
The same stuff. Later we admit and "oops we may have killed a couple of innocents, maybe a couple of kids" hits the news wires.
BushII "killed" ISIS in Afghanistan and Iraq. ISIS came back. Trump "killed" ISIS everywhere. It came back. Now Biden is into "killing" what appears to be a hydrahead. There must be better methods to deal with ISIS than killing.
ISIS is the child of Al-queda. It is our personal foreign legion. We armed them in Syria.
Antiwar rocks it for ALL of US, for truth, peace and social justice and equality!!!
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The command said the strike was launched in a remote region known as Dhaardaar, which is about 50 miles southeast of Boosaaso, a city on the Gulf of Aden that’s part of the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia.
What a coincidence. I was just thinking about the region known as Dhaardaar, which is about 50 miles southeast of Boosaaso, a city on the Gulf of Aden that’s part of the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somali and I could barely sleep at night knowing what a threat it was to my very existence. Thank you so much US, I now can sleep tight tonight.
That was great! Thank you!
Did congress declare war on Somalia? If not then what you have here folks is another american crime against humanity… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7a51b37ceda4ddc05f24fc52c25a185a6da6156e07f90ad68028f336bf28c4e6.jpg But habits are hard to break after centuries..
Here's https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/08d897b208a33ed6d0976f44dd77a502270dc138b6949d5e1a81d5f438f04734.jpg an idea, instead of wasting $ on killing people,use that$ to feed them.
WE are a non-stop war governing a country.
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au:https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/06/01/the-us-empire-isnt-a-government-that-runs-nonstop-wars-its-a-nonstop-war-that-runs-a-government/
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Cha-ching!@!! More money for the MIC. Glorius!
Thank joe biden for saving us americans over here in america from people trying to get us to leave their country wAaaaaaay over there