Excerpt - MOGADISHU, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Many people died in a U.S. air strike on a southern Somali village occupied by Islamists believed to be sheltering at least one al Qaeda suspect, a Somali government source said on Tuesday. "I understand there are so many dead bodies and animals in the village," the senior source told Reuters. In the first known direct U.S. intervention in the Somali war that began over Christmas, an AC-130 plane rained gunfire down on the southern village of Hayo late on Monday. "The Americans are saying an al Qaeda member heading operations in east...