Tigermike 3,053 Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 US Navy Ships Fire on Northern Somalia Village By VOA News 02 June 2007 Officials in Somalia say U.S. naval warships have bombarded a remote coastal village where suspected Islamist insurgents had set up a base. The attack happened Friday night when a Navy destroyer opened fire around the village of Bargal, located in northern Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Officials say the extremists arrived in Bargal earlier this week, then fought with troops from the region. A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman would not confirm or deny the report. He would only say the United States remains committed to reducing terrorist capabilities when it finds them. CNN International reported Friday that the ships fired on a suspected al-Qaida operative suspected of being involved in the simultaneous bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The U.S. carried out airstrikes earlier this year in southern Somalia targeting suspected al-Qaida operatives. http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-06-02-voa7.cfm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,126 Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 Where's Rosie O'Fat to scream that our soldiers are the terrorist, bombarding defensless villages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,440 Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/200...FTOKEN=20250330 http://news.google.com/news?q=Ships+Fire+o...ws&ct=title Seems we are fighting pirates off the coast of Somalia. These ships were tracking pirates. It was only two ships that carry a total of two highly accurate guns. This was just a low cost way of taking down a bad guy. It was not a random shelling of a whole village. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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