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Somali Gov’t demands US explain Ruritanian Airstrike
2016-09-30
Somalia’s government is demanding an explanation from the United States for Wednesday’s deadly Ruritanian airstrike in central Somalia. The Pentagon said in news release Thursday that its forces launched a “self-defense” strike against al-Shabab near the town of Galkayo, killing at least nine militants.

However, Galmudug state vice-president Mohamed Hashi Abdi told VOA’s Somali service that the U.S. airstrike killed 13 members of Galmudug forces.
And what were the Galmudug forces doing at the moment they were gob-smacked?
After the weekly cabinet meeting in Mogadishu, ministers in the government said they want “a clear explanation on the airstrike carried out by U.S. against forces belonging to the Galmudug, a Somali federal member state.”

The cabinet said it will appoint a ministerial committee to investigate the airstrike.

Abdi said the Americans were “misguided” in a request that came from officials in the semi-autonomous Puntland region.

“We fight against al-Shabab, and there is no al-Shabab presence in Galmudug area,” he added.
Then why were you fighting?
Abdi said the Galmudug president and the U.S. deputy ambassador to Somalia met Thursday in Mogadishu to discuss the issue, and the U.S. diplomat pledged to provide clear answers.

Meanwhile, residents in Galkayo who were protesting the strike burned the U.S. flag Thursday.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Who do they think they are, Congress? Even they get no straight answers, what are you expecting? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-09-30 07:06  

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