Smirky - There you go again.

[deminks]

Witnesses: U.S. strikes on al-Qaeda suspects kill 31 Somali civilians

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-09-al-qaeda-airstrikes_x.htm?csp=34



U.S. tightlipped over Somali airstrike

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070110-064754-6294r

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has all but stopped talking about a weekend airstrike in Somalia that targeted al-Qaida members but Somalis claimed killed civilians.

In Washington, defense officials said only they had conducted one strike on a northern area with a U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship and they are fairly certain Abu Talha al-Sudani, a Sudanese associate of Osama bin Laden, was killed.

But in Mogadishu rumors are that as many as 50 people, including children, were gunned down, a Washington Post correspondent reported.




A Somali student is taken to hospital, Wednesday, Jan 10, 2007, after he was injured during an attack in Mogadishu Tuesday night. In Mogadishu, a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at Ethiopian troops in the south of the capital, but missed the target and hit a house, injuring two civilians, said Khadija Muhyadin. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)


U.N. chief concerned that US bombing could escalate hostilities and harm civilians

http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=176310


Somalia = Iraq, pre-emptive strike (this one without authority), creating new haven for terrorists and new hatred for us, creating chaos, whack-a-mole policies, destroying our own influence in the world. The people are not greeting us with flowers here, either.

[LiberalEsto]

1. Whenever there's a problem

just go kill people.

That's B*sh's strategy in a nutshell.