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US Military Says Airstrike In Somalia Kills 26 Al-Shabab
2019-03-03
[RadioShabelle] The United States military says it has killed 26 fighters with the al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
murderous Moslem group with an Arclight airstrike in central Somalia, after a pair of strikes earlier this week killed 55.

The U.S. Africa Command says the attack occurred Thursday in the Hiran region, where the others took place.

The airstrike was announced shortly after Somali authorities said a deadly overnight siege by al-Shabaab had ended in the capital, Mogadishu, with all attackers killed.

The U.S. has dramatically increased airstrikes against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, Africa’s deadliest murderous Moslem group since President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
took office.

The U.S. has carried out 24 strikes this year.

Authorities and experts acknowledge that it will take more than airstrikes to defeat the murderous Moslem group, which holds large parts of rural central and southern Somalia.
But it must be admitted that both the boots on the ground and the hearts & minds pieces are ever so much easier when the bodies of the bad guys are heaped up in piles off to the side somewhere.
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