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U.S. Navy Strikes Inside Somalia
Human Events ^ | March 5, 2008 | W. Thomas Smith Jr.

Posted on 03/05/2008 12:00:03 PM PST by SuzyQ2

...It wasn’t the first time American air or naval forces had attacked enemy positions in Somalia. It was the fourth such attack in 14 months on the lawless West African nation: a result of the increasing expansion of Islamic extremism onto the African continent.

Conflicting reports have emerged regarding the operation. What is known is that the attacks were probably made with either surface or submarine-launched cruise missiles. The targeted house was in the town of Dhoobley (Dobley), a few miles from the Kenyan border. The targeted individuals were considered high value, and -- according to one of my sources -- “there was a very clear Al Qaeda link” and the hit “may have been a two for one [in terms of high value targets].”

Target possibilities include:

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(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200803; africa; africom; alqaeda; alqaedaafrica; gwot; navy; rerror; somalia; war

1 posted on 03/05/2008 12:00:04 PM PST by SuzyQ2
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To: SuzyQ2

I wonder if that was the place Obama visited when he played dress up.


2 posted on 03/05/2008 12:01:46 PM PST by Londo Molari
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To: SuzyQ2

Place needs a heavy dose of blacks ops and special forces with a president that will back ‘em up instead of the bastard we had the last time.


3 posted on 03/05/2008 12:06:27 PM PST by evad (.I.)
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To: SuzyQ2; Straight Vermonter; Cap Huff; Southack; AdmSmith; nuconvert
Got a twofer we did...

The targeted individuals were considered high value, and -- according to one of my sources -- “there was a very clear Al Qaeda link” and the hit “may have been a two for one [in terms of high value targets].”

Hello Fazul......hell calling.

4 posted on 03/05/2008 12:06:52 PM PST by Dog
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To: SuzyQ2
It was the fourth such attack in 14 months on the lawless West African nation

Somalia is most certainly in East Africa. West Africa = Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, etc. I just want to point that out, since Ghana is a much more pleasant and developed place than Somalia.

5 posted on 03/05/2008 12:07:48 PM PST by seacapn
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To: Londo Molari

If we went in and gathered DNA evidence then we may have also had US SF’s on the ground. Perhaps doing target designation and intelligence gathering.


6 posted on 03/05/2008 12:08:27 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: SuzyQ2

West African nation??? East African.


7 posted on 03/05/2008 12:10:51 PM PST by Tax Government (Government-funded education, for the most part, is content to make morons of us all.)
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To: Londo Molari
I wonder if that was the place Obama visited when he played dress up.

Excellent question!

8 posted on 03/05/2008 12:12:21 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Who would you rather appoint lifetime judges, Barack Hussein Obama or McQueeg?©®™)
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To: Tax Government

I thought the guy next door said he saw the plane circling above, not a cruise missle


9 posted on 03/05/2008 12:13:31 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
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To: Clint N. Suhks

“It was the fourth such attack in 14 months on the lawless West African nation...”

And yet we continue to import tens of thousands of these sand maggot savages into the US.


10 posted on 03/05/2008 12:15:41 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: bert
A recon flight ...or a predator on a BDA mission.

I will bet there was a predator scoping out the target as the missiles pounded the target.

11 posted on 03/05/2008 12:16:50 PM PST by Dog
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To: SuzyQ2

Tomahawk?


12 posted on 03/05/2008 12:17:03 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Yeppers.


13 posted on 03/05/2008 12:17:36 PM PST by Dog
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To: Flavious_Maximus
Let’s not paint everyone with a large brush, but I understand your sentiment.
14 posted on 03/05/2008 12:20:16 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Who would you rather appoint lifetime judges, Barack Hussein Obama or McQueeg?©®™)
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To: Dog

I thought it came out yesterday that one was Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan


15 posted on 03/05/2008 12:44:36 PM PST by nuconvert (There are bad people in the pistachio business.)
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To: SuzyQ2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979575/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979498/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979437/posts

16 posted on 03/05/2008 1:01:18 PM PST by ASA Vet (Only a suicidal fool would have Hillary as VP)
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To: ASA Vet

That’s great ASA vet.
I saw those. But this goes into more detail about AFRICOM.


17 posted on 03/05/2008 1:18:28 PM PST by SuzyQ2
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