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Kenyan airstrikes kill 60 in Somalia
2012-01-08
[Iran Press TV] More than 60 people have been killed after Kenyan warplanes bombarded southern Somalia, a Kenyan military front man has announced.

The Arclight airstrikes happened in Garbaharey town on Friday, Col. Cyrus Oguna said Saturday.

He claimed that 60 al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
fighters were killed and about 50 others were maimed in the Arclight airstrikes.

Last October, Kenya sent soldiers over its border into Somalia to pursue al-Shabaab. The Kenyan military claims to have killed hundreds of Somali fighters, but eyewitnesses said civilians are the victims of the Arclight airstrikes.
Posted by:Fred

#1  It's a start....
Posted by: Barbara   2012-01-08 12:10  

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