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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Somalia: 'United States Using Drones to Attack Al-Shabaab'

from allafrica.........

"The United States is using its pilotless drone aircraft to launch military attacks on leaders of the Somali militant group, Al Shabaab, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
The Post quoted an unidentified U.S. official as saying a drone fired on two Al Shabaab leaders last week, apparently wounding them.

The official was reported to have said of Al Shabaab: "They have become somewhat emboldened of late, and, as a result, we have become more focused on inhibiting their activities... They were planning operations outside of Somalia.”

The Post said Somalia joins Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen as the subject of lethal attacks from drones.

In remarks made in Washington on Wednesday, President Barack Obama's assistant in charge of counter-terrorism, John O. Brennan, identified Somalia as a country which hosted "affiliates and adherents" of Al Qaeda".........READ MORE

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