U.S. moves carrier off coast of Somalia

[lebkuchen]

Disclosure follows reports of U.S. strike on southern region

http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42675

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has joined three U.S. warships already patrolling the volatile nation’s enormous coastline, the Navy said Tuesday. Prior to being reassigned to Somalia by the U.S. Central Command, the Eisenhower was supporting NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, according to U.S. Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Charlie Brown, of the Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.

Prior to the Eisenhower’s arrival, the guided-missile cruisers USS Bunker Hill and the USS Anzio — as well as the amphibious landing ship USS Ashland — had been searching for militants looking to escape from or infiltrate Somalia by sea. U.S. sailors have boarded a number of commercial vessels while patrolling the coastline, but have yet to detain any militants.

There was no stated timeline as to how long the Eisenhower and the other vessels would continue to monitor Somalia.

“We’ll be there as long as required,” Brown said.

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“The strike was carried out after it had been confirmed that al-Qaida members are hiding there in the area,” government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari told The Associated Press. “We don’t know how many people were killed in the attack, but we understand there were a lot of casualties. Most were Islamic fighters.”


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So, it's US policy to bomb any country Bush thinks has Islamic fighters?

[Webster Green]

1. Our local news tonite said those killed were "suspected Al Quaida"

So we are killing "suspected" terrorists?

Who gets to do the suspecting?.....The decider?

[Kagemusha]

2. The country allegedly has a government you know

and the US supports that government and that government is happy to have the US bombing its domestic enemies.

What part of this is hard to understand? Not saying it's right or that I agree with it but, I don't find it hard to understand.