qrayjack
05-01-2008, 07:01 AM
U.S. air strike kills al Qaeda boss in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. war planes killed an Islamist rebel said to be al Qaeda's leader in Somalia and at least a dozen other people on Thursday in Washington's biggest blow against an insurgency raging since 2007.
The rebels said Aden Hashi Ayro -- who led al Shabaab militants blamed for attacks on government troops and their Ethiopian allies -- died in the first major success for a string of U.S. air-strikes on Somali insurgents in the last year.
"Infidel planes bombed Dusamareb," Shabaab spokesman Mukhtar Ali Robow told Reuters by phone, referring to a town in central Somalia, where body parts lay strewn round a wrecked house.
MORE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/ts_nm/somalia_conflict_dc_ 10)
*COME TO WORK FOR AL QAEDA, WE GOT A HELLFIRE MISSILE JUST FOR YOU.- United States Air Force.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. war planes killed an Islamist rebel said to be al Qaeda's leader in Somalia and at least a dozen other people on Thursday in Washington's biggest blow against an insurgency raging since 2007.
The rebels said Aden Hashi Ayro -- who led al Shabaab militants blamed for attacks on government troops and their Ethiopian allies -- died in the first major success for a string of U.S. air-strikes on Somali insurgents in the last year.
"Infidel planes bombed Dusamareb," Shabaab spokesman Mukhtar Ali Robow told Reuters by phone, referring to a town in central Somalia, where body parts lay strewn round a wrecked house.
MORE (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/ts_nm/somalia_conflict_dc_ 10)
*COME TO WORK FOR AL QAEDA, WE GOT A HELLFIRE MISSILE JUST FOR YOU.- United States Air Force.