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US strikes in Somalia kill four terrorists after deadly car bomb
2019-12-30
[IsraelTimes] US Africa Command says it conducted 3 Arclight airstrike
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s targeting al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
members, a day after Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years killed 79.


The US military launched airstrikes against the al-Shabaab bully boy group in Somalia on Sunday, US Africa Command said, killing four terrorists.

The strikes came one day after Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years, when a boom-mobile killed at least 79 people in a busy area of Mogadishu.

"In coordination with the federal government of Somalia, US Africa Command conducted three airstrikes in two locations targeting al-Shabaab snuffies in the vicinity of Qunyo Barrow and Caliyoow Barrow, Somalia, respectively, December 29," AFRICOM said in a statement.

It said two strikes had killed two snuffies and destroyed two vehicles in Qunyo Barrow while a separate strike killed another two in Caliyoow Barrow.

US strikes in Somalia surged after President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
declared the south of the country an "area of active hostilities". The rate of air strikes has risen sharply this year, and in an April statement AFRICOM said it had killed more than 800 people in 110 air strikes in Somalia since April 2017.

Saturday’s attack in Mogadishu has not been claimed, but the city is regularly hit by boom-mobileings and attacks waged by al-Shabaab Islamist snuffies allied to al-Qaeda.

"Since al-Shabaab’s first external attack in 2010, the group has ruthlessly killed hundreds," said US Army Major General William Gayler, AFRICOM’s director of operations.

"They have attacked and killed African partners, allies, and fellow Americans."
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