Forgot all about this one, didn’t we??
Somalia: US aircraft bombed a city, four civilians killed
AFP via translation | March 3, 2008
Posted on 03/03/2008 12:30:32 AM CST by HAL9000
via translation-
ALERT - Somalia: US aircraft bombed a city, four civilians killed
MOGADISCIO - The United States aircraft bombed during the night from Sunday to Monday a city held by Somali Islamists, near the Kenyan border, killing at least four civilians, it was learned from chiefs.
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and from downthread
To: HAL9000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/10/alqaida.usa1
US forces launched a third consecutive day of air strikes in Somalia today as a Somali government official said one of three al-Qaida suspects targeted by the raids was believed to have been killed.
The official said the operation was understood to have killed an al-Qaida militant thought to be behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people in all.
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5 posted on 03/03/2008 12:38:14 AM CST by maine-iac7 (”,,,but you can’t fool all of the people all the time” LINCOLN)
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There may be some interesting implications in this little story...
N. Korea: Three High-ranking Security Officers Escaped to China; the Authorities on Alert
FNK ^ | 03/03/08 | Kim Dae-sung
Posted on 03/03/2008 3:55:25 AM CST by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my translation
Three High-ranking Security Officers Escaped to China; N. Korean Authorities on Alert
[2008-03-03]
[N. Korean authorities gave an order of shoot-on-sight, and dispatched liquidation squad to China]
In late February, three high-ranking officers of N. Korea’s State Security Department escaped all at once, putting N. Korean authorities under great strain.
On Feb. 27, Mr. Hwang(lieutenant colonel,) a section chief at Overseas Counterintelligence Directorate(2nd Directorate) of State Security Department, Mr. Oh(colonel,) and Mr. Park(lieutenant colonel) had escaped from N. Korea, according to the information conveyed on Mar. 2 by our local correspondent in China.
According to him, these three senior officers were under investigation for leaking state secret, and escaped from State Security Department exploiting lax security. They reportedly left Pyongyang on Feb. 24, and escaped through Shinuiju, Hyesan, and Rajin-Sunbong respectively.
The correspondent said that State Security Department put the entire organization on alert in order to capture them and blocked off all expected route for their escape, but only the one escaping through Hyesan had brief altercation with a security platoon near Baek-am before escaping into Jang-bai, while the other two were able to escape undetected.
The escape from N. Korea of three senior security officers all at once is unprecedented. Fearing enormous intelligence damage if they were to talk, State Security Department reportedly call off the prior order of their arrest and issued the new order of shoot-on-sight.
The local correspondent in China said that security agents from State Security Department and their reinforcement from local security department of N. Hamkyong and Yanggang Provinces are now in border areas of China, zealously tracking down the escaped officers, and they will (publicly) send out leaflets on the escapees.
Cho Seung-woo, the local correspondent in China
Kim Dae-sung
/end my translation
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Apparently there are NK forces (don’t think there’s a difference between ‘army’ and ‘police’ over there) physically *on* Chinese soil....
Hmmmmmmmm......