McClatchy: American among those killed by U.S. attack in Somalia

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/world/17319460.htm?source=rss&channel=krwashington_world

American among those killed by U.S. attack in Somalia
By Mahad Elmi and Shashank Bengali
McClatchy Newspapers

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali officials confirmed on Sunday that an American was among the suspected Muslim radicals killed on Friday when a U.S. Navy warship fired missiles at a militant encampment in northern Somalia.

The American was not identified, but Hassan Dahir Mohamoud, the vice president of Puntland, the northern Somali region that declared itself semiautonomous in 1998, said that the American's passport had been recovered.

Five other foreigners were also killed in the strike, Mohamoud said, including citizens of Great Britain, Sweden, Morocco, Pakistan and Yemen. Two Somali nationals reportedly survived the U.S. missile strike.

"We have found an American, British, Swedish and some Middle Eastern passports on the corpses," Mohamoud said.

The presence of at least six foreigners among what officials now estimate was a group of perhaps a dozen men who arrived by boat in Puntland Wednesday night raises questions about who the men were and what their purpose was.

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[KoKo]

1. Sounds like an international group of Intelligence Workers....

Wonder why our Navy would take them out? Were they good guys or bad guys (in the way this idiot adminstration refers to people)... Will we ever know what they were up to and why they were "taken out."

:shrug: