"He blowed up real good."
“Raid! Kills terrorists dead.”
we now have a link to report:
http://www.reuters.com/article/africaCrisis/idUSLE721429
Please confirm so I have another reason to light up a fine “victory” cigar.
If this is true, it took some goof HUMINT to make it happen.
Helo.......Goodbye.
"He blowed up real good."
Foreign troops launch Somali raid
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The troops, who according to some reports had uniforms with French insignia
{snip}A French military spokesman denied its forces were involved. "There was no French operation,"
Witness Dahir Ahmed said that the helicopters had taken off from a nearby warship flying a French flag.
Ping
BBC radio today said these commandos were French and the helo came from a French Navy ship offshore. Even if France had something like Miranda rights, I don’t think he would gotten them.
Another solid hit for our side in the game of terrorist Whack-a-Mole.
France seems to have become a real country since they elected Sarkozy. What a difference a leader makes.
Witnesses say foreign soldiers on board four helicopters staged a raid near a village in rebel-controlled southern Somalia, killing at least two people inside a vehicle believed to have been carrying Islamist insurgents.
REUTERS - Suspected foreign commandos on board two helicopters killed at least two people when they attacked a car thought to be carrying Islamist insurgents in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Monday.
Residents said the incident took place near Roobow village in Barawe District, some 250 km (155 miles) south of Mogadishu, and that a senior rebel commander might be among the dead.
Local man Bashir Abdi told Reuters soldiers in two helicopters opened fire on a car passing near their village.
"The troops appeared to have French flags on the shoulders of their uniforms," Abdi said by telephone from the scene. He said two people were killed and others taken by the soldiers.
French defence ministry spokesman Christophe Prazuck denied French soldiers had been involved.
"We don't have any military presence in that region ... there are no forces in that territory," Prazuck said in Paris.
French forces have launched commando raids in Somalia in the past to rescue French nationals held by rebels and pirates.
Another witness, Abdulkadir Muse, said al Shabaab insurgents exchanged fire with the commandos. He said all four people in the car were killed and their bodies taken by the foreigners.
The four people in the car were not thought to have been Somalis, Muse added, but he could provide no proof.
Western security agencies say the failed Horn of Africa state has become a safe haven for militants, including foreign jihadists, who use it to plot attacks in the region and beyond.
Last month, one of two French security advisers kidnapped by Somali insurgents in July managed to escape from his captors and fled to the presidential palace in Mogadishu.
Somalia's fragile U.N.-backed government faces a stubborn insurgency mounted by al Shabaab and others. Washington accuses al Shabaab of being al Qaeda's proxy in the lawless country.
President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's administration controls only small parts of the impoverished nation's drought-ridden region and a few districts of the bullet-scarred coastal capital.
Violence has killed more than 18,000 Somalis since the start of 2007 and driven another 1.5 million from their homes.
That has triggered one of the world's worst aid emergencies, with the number of people needing help leaping 17.5 percent in a year to 3.76 million or half the population.
bttt
May he rest in pork.
Allah Fubar Mo'Fo' !