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Trump orders airstrikes on ISIS leaders hiding in Somali caves
NY Post ^ | 2/01/25 | Chris Harris

Posted on 02/01/2025 11:47:20 AM PST by Libloather

The U.S. military conducted airstrikes against the senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists in Somalia on Saturday.

President Trump said on his Truth Social network that the strikes, the first military action since he took office Jan. 20, were carried out Saturday morning.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a statement the U.S. worked with Somalian authorities to carry out the offensive.

“This morning, I ordered precision military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” Trump wrote in his post.

The airstrikes took out ISIS operatives in the Golis mountains in the Bari region, Hegseth said, including a senior official, responsible for planning ISIS attacks.

The name of the alleged ISIS official was not included.

“These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump added in his Truth Social post. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.”

Hegseth said “multiple operatives were killed” in the airstrikes, further degrading “ISIS’s ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians.”

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: africa; airstrikes; bari; bariregion; caves; eastafrica; golismountains; gwot; hornofafrica; isis; somalia; trump; waronterror
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They blow up so fast.
1 posted on 02/01/2025 11:47:20 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Get the chinese and russians and moose limbs and venezuelans and iranians out of the US first.


2 posted on 02/01/2025 11:48:44 AM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Libloather

This is going to piss off the Congress’s token Somalian Muzzie. Ilhan Omar.


3 posted on 02/01/2025 11:51:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (DemonRAT "Senators" use their incontinence in attempt of bring down Trump nominees.)
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To: Libloather

The left will accuse Trump of starting a war.


4 posted on 02/01/2025 11:51:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: Libloather

Maybe we should also stop supporting ISIS in Syria where they just took over with our planes flying top cover.


5 posted on 02/01/2025 11:52:02 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Libloather

This means I get my virgins now!

Holy crip, all I see is a bunch of ugly arse guys!

I’ve been screwed!


6 posted on 02/01/2025 11:54:45 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Time to go tranny.


7 posted on 02/01/2025 11:55:39 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

Still takes a little getting used to, but I like it!

8 posted on 02/01/2025 12:00:39 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: packagingguy
Your Virgin Sir ....

72Virgins_of_Islam


9 posted on 02/01/2025 12:01:04 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Libloather

F around find out


10 posted on 02/01/2025 12:01:56 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: packagingguy

“Better a bunch of slu**y broads that know what the H*ll they’re doing.”

~ Walter (Jeff Dunham)


11 posted on 02/01/2025 12:02:44 PM PST by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: telescope115

SecDef HegSeth — say it fast


12 posted on 02/01/2025 12:04:12 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Libloather

Loose lips......


13 posted on 02/01/2025 12:07:23 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Libloather
Wonder what ordinance was used?

Military history shows strikes against well dug cave positions to be of limited effect.

If the strikes were carrier launched, I'm not getting hopeful.

If launched from Diego Garcia, results could be positive.

14 posted on 02/01/2025 12:08:20 PM PST by fso301
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To: FlingWingFlyer

She’s gonna stroke out.


15 posted on 02/01/2025 12:16:08 PM PST by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11. God Bless Israel.)
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To: Libloather

Lots of winning!


16 posted on 02/01/2025 12:17:27 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: I want the USA back

“The left will accuse Trump of starting a war.”
They started it when the creep with the ISIS flag on his pickup mowed down 30 people in NOLA.
Who knows what else ISID is responsible for?
Several they arrested for arson in California had middle eastern names.
We’ve had 3 plane crashes with unknown cause.


17 posted on 02/01/2025 12:18:44 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Libloather

Screw ISIS. Blow them up! You can bet many of them have crossed our border in the last 4 years.


18 posted on 02/01/2025 12:20:28 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: Libloather

Maybe next week we’ll be treated to some 7th century rabid animal types like the Taliban have been the last decades.


19 posted on 02/01/2025 12:21:43 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Pollard

I think I sprained my tongue…..😛


20 posted on 02/01/2025 12:24:38 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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