Tuesday - September 15, 2009

US forces kill al-Qaeda mastermind in Somalia. GOOD! Scratch one Rat Bastard

I sure do hope he saw it coming and hurt like hell before the end. Only sorry our side couldn’t have found the rat sooner. But you know the saying, better late .............

I am ALWAYS PROUD of our guys and Brits as well, when they carry off something like this.  OK, often times mistakes are made but these are OUR folks and I’ll never join the ‘crucify’ when things go wrong crowd.  That’s death and life.  And it is WAR damn it. Just a different kind and fought a different way.  Pitty the poor Brits who turned on one of theirs over the torture thing, just for being aware of what Americans “might” have been doing.  Hope no civilian law suits result over this violation of the rat-bastard’s uman rights.

American special forces killed a key suspect linked to the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel on Kenya’s coast, reports said.

At least two helicopters strafed the car said to be carrying Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and then landed to collect his body and that of another man in the car who died.

There were reports that two wounded men were also picked up by the helicopter teams.

All were linked to the hardline al-Shabaab movement, which is said to have links to al-Qaeda and which now controls most of southern Somalia.

Forces from the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command were involved in Monday’s raid in Barawe district, 150 miles south of Mogadishu, two US military sources anonymously told The Associated Press.

One source told Reuters that Nabhan’s body had been taken into police custody, but US officials in Washington refused to comment on “any alleged operation in Somalia”.

But if it is confirmed that US troops were in the helicopters, it would be the first time American boots have been on Somali soil since the infamous “Black Hawk Down” debacle of 1993.

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, has featured on the FBI’s most wanted list since he was linked to a truck bombing of an Israeli hotel on Kenya’s coast in 2002. Ten Kenyans and three Israelis died.

Nabhan is also believed to have been involved in the failed attempt to use a rocket-propelled grenade to down a holiday jet as it took off from Kenya’s Mombasa airport carrying mostly Israeli tourists later the same day.

The authorities in Kenya also regard him as a suspect in two attacks on US embassies in the region in 1998.

“There is a lot of conflicting information coming from the area,” a Western diplomat familiar with Somalia said in Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya.

“But it does seem that at least two choppers, were involved in an incident earlier today.” The US has in recent years carried out a series of missile raids aimed at killing senior members of al-Shabaab.

In May last year, US warplanes killed the then-leader of al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda’s top man in the country, Afghan-trained Aden Hashi Ayro, in an attack on the central town of Dusamareb.

Under Ayro, al Shabaab had adopted Iraq-style tactics, including assassinations, roadside bombs and suicide bombings.

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Posted by peiper     on 09/15/2009 at 06:26 AM   
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