Castro Posted June 3, 2007 Six militants killed in Somalia POSTED: 1126 GMT (1926 HKT), June 3, 2007 BOSSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) -- Six Islamist fighters, including foreigners from Western nations, were killed in U.S. air strikes and battles with local forces in northern Somalia this weekend, a regional official said on Sunday. "Yesterday we killed six terrorists from America, Britain, Sweden, Morocco, Pakistan and Yemen," said Mohamed Ali Yusuf, finance minister in the semi-autonomous Puntland administration. "We came out victors and the fighting is over. Five Puntland troops were wounded," he told a news conference in Bossasso. He gave no other details. Local forces on trucks fitted with heavy guns have blocked roads leading up to the mountain hideouts where American missiles crashed down on Friday. CNN said the attacks were aimed at an al Qaeda suspect. A Somali jihadist group calling itself the Young Mujahideen Movement had earlier said it suffered no casualties in what it called "random" U.S. air strikes and said it killed 11 soldiers. "American planes carried out random attacks without causing any losses among the mujahideen, praise to God," the group said in a Web posting. The statement could not immediately be verified but was on a site used by al Qaeda and other Islamists. Speaking in Singapore, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates declined to comment on the strikes in rugged northern Somalia, saying it was possibly an operation still in progress. CNN quoted unnamed sources as saying the attacks were the second in six months aimed at a suspect in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 240 people. Islamists targeted Puntland residents said violence broke out after a group of Islamists, including foreign fighters, landed by boat in the area on Wednesday before exchanging fire with local police. The United States also launched air strikes in southern Somalia in January aimed at three top al Qaeda suspects but killed their allies instead, U.S. officials have said. They were believed to be in a group of Islamists who fled the capital Mogadishu in January after being routed by the Somali interim government and its Ethiopian military allies. Washington says six al Qaeda operatives or associates are in Somalia, including alleged embassy bomber Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, and Abu Talha al-Sudani, accused of orchestrating the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya that killed 15. Others include Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, hardline leader of the ousted Somali Islamic Courts Council (SICC), and Adan Hashi Ayro, head of the SICC's feared military wing, the Shabaab. SICC remnants have been blamed for a wave of guerrilla attacks mostly targeting Ethiopian troops in the capital. In the latest, residents said one person was killed and two were wounded on Sunday when Ethiopian soldiers opened fire after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. "A remote-controlled landmine went off as the Ethiopian military vehicles passed," said one witness, who gave his name as Mustafa. "After the blast, the Ethiopians began shooting." CNN Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Castro Posted June 3, 2007 "Yesterday we killed six terrorists from America, Britain, Sweden, Morocco, Pakistan and Yemen," said Mohamed Ali Yusuf, finance minister in the semi-autonomous Puntland administration. "We came out victors and the fighting is over. Five Puntland troops were wounded," he told a news conference in Bossasso. Not unlike his counterparts in Muqdisho, this dimwit of a collaborator does not know where his lips end and the American butt begins. They sure know how to pick them well. "We" kulahaa. Did he think he was the one who did the bombing? Axmaq fowqal axmaq. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rudy-Diiriye Posted June 3, 2007 well finally, the americans have admitted that their hand is in the cookie jar. all the air bombing that took place and all the innocents ones they killed. as Jundaya said, why would 6 million "muslims" enjoy a 1700 miles coast while 60 million ethiopian christians got none!! u get the picture. somali holacaust is taking place. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Duke Posted June 3, 2007 Puntland and TFG leaders are far better than the secesionist clown in Hargaysa Riyoole. Anyhow Puntland is a no go zone for these terror groups, go the hell back to where ever you came from. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rudy-Diiriye Posted June 3, 2007 yo homie, are you like running around with big kubeerto to cover our statements. who said anything about sland in this thread!! u have any idea whats coming outta of mouth?? lol! now finally, u owing up that tfg is not really a somali thing but bunch of planders tugs who bent of aargoos and clan clansing!! how true. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tahliil Posted June 3, 2007 Originally posted by rudy: who said anything about sland in this thread!! u have any idea whats coming outta of mouth?? Kubeerto....lol Rudy its like thou someone must have touched a nerve, a ticklin and painful nerve...and froze the mind for a sec...How he worked SLand into this...is lol its funny in its own way to see the old Duke go off sometimes and says wild stuff like that... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N.O.R.F Posted June 4, 2007 Looks like no one was killed,,,,,,,, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
