US confirm attack on Somalian target
BBC
01 /May/2008
Waagacusub.com
The US military
has confirmed it carried out an attack on what it
describes as a known al-Qaeda target in Somalia.
Somali sources have confirmed
that a senior commander of the al-Shabab Islamist
insurgent group was killed in an air-strike on a house
earlier today.
Aden Hashi Eyrow was the commander of al-Shabab, a
militia with links to a group of Islamic courts which
briefly controlled much of central and southern Somalia
in 2006.
The Islamic courts were routed when Ethiopian forces
entered Somalia in support of the country's weak interim
government.
Al-Shabab has grown in strength in the past few months,
taking control of large areas of the country.
It is impossible to verify claims that al-Shabab is
allied to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
Captain James Graybeal from the United States Central
Command confirmed that an attack took place.
"The United States Central Command conducted an attack
against a known al-Qaeda target and military leader in
Somalia on the first of May," he said "The United States
is committed to the global war on terror and pursuit of
terrorists wherever they operate."
The air assault is the fourth military operation by US
forces in Somalia since January last year.
-BBC
Somalia:
The Flip-Flop Policy of Sharif Hassan
Sheikh Aden.
Sharif
Hassan Sheikh Aden the former Speaker of
Parliament of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG)
has a nickname, ‘Razor’, because of his attributes of
being cunning and sharp in his political moves. He first emerged
into the spotlight of Somali politics in September
2004 after being elected as the Speaker of Parliament during the
formation of the TFG in Mbagathi, Nairobi. According to
information he submitted at that time the highest education
level he achieved was Intermediate School, and claimed to have
been a merchant who traded in Hides and Skins and also the semi
narcotic drug leaf Khat. He unanimously defeated
his nearest rival for the election of the Speaker, Sheikh Aden
Madobe who was supported by Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf - while he
Sharif Hassan had the support from most of the
other warlords, namely Mohamed Qanyare, Osman Atto, Muse Sudi,
etc. .
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