Braking on MSNBC: AP: Witness says helicopter gunships launch new attacks in Somalia

[Waya]

Are they still at it? I just got up....I don't even know what's going on .....geeeeeeeeeez

[ShortnFiery]

1. Horrid to use those BIG guns on personnel ...

Those are 50 caliber guns that cut people in half ... not supposed to be used against personnel. But hell, we live in deluded BushWorld. This is like shooting fish in a barrel, i.e., slaughter. :grr:

[Waya]

2. What the hell is going on here?

I knew we lived in a mad world......but this is getting ridiculous. I need more coffee.......or something stronger!

[ellisonz]

3. Buckfush.

I hope to God we don't miss.

:thumbsdown:

[Rose Siding]

4. McClatchy reported that yesterday Somalians rejected US requests to -get this-

bring some of the Islamists "which had seized Mogadishu in June from U.S.-backed warlords" into the interim govt. Then, kaboom!-

NAIROBI, Kenya - In a rebuff to the United States, Somalia's interim president, Abdullahi Yusuf, on Monday rejected U.S. requests to bring moderate Islamists into his weak transitional government.

Negotiations with Islamists "will not happen," he told Al Jazeera television before flying to Mogadishu, Somalia's lawless seaside capital. "We will crack down on the terrorists in any place around the nation."
...
Analysts who'd been critical of U.S. policy in Somalia said the Bush administration might be focusing on achieving political stability there after years of being preoccupied with preventing al Qaida cells from taking root.

"If the U.S. is indeed doing more than making a few public statements in support of dialogue with moderates, then it does represent a shift in the public face of its policy," said John Prendergast, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group, a research center on global conflict.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16413306.htm

So if a nation *won't* hop in bed with "moderates" within extremist factions, the US will bomb attacks. Good-bye to the With Us or Agin Us doctrine.

[bdamomma]

5. we have a madman loose in the WH, now he's giving orders

to attack another country Somalia, this must stop, or we will paying a hefty price for this madman's delusional disorder.

[Eugene]

6. AP: U.S. Launches Airstrike in Somalia (Tuesday)

EDIT: Nationality of Tuesday's attackers not determined.

U.S. Launches Airstrike in Somalia


Tuesday January 9, 2007 2:16 PM

AP Photo NY121

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN

Associated Press Writer

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A U.S. airstrike hit targets in southern Somalia where Islamic
militants were believed to be sheltering suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S.
embassies, Somali officials and witnesses said Tuesday. Many people were reported killed.

Monday's attack was the first overt military action by the U.S. in Somalia since it led a U.N.
force in the 1990s that intervened in Somalia in an effort to fight famine. The mission led
to clashes between U.N. forces and Somali warlords, including the "Black Hawk Down" battle
that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead.

Helicopter gunships launched new attacks Tuesday near the scene of a U.S. airstrike in the
village of Hayi, although it was not clear if they were American or Ethiopian aircraft, and
it was not known if there were any casualties.

Two helicopters "fired several rockets toward the road that leads to the Kenyan border," said
Ali Seed Yusuf, a resident of the town of Afmadow in southern Somalia.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6332991,00.html