Great job to the Commandos and Obama
American commandos killed and seized the body of one of the world’s most wanted terrorists in Somalia, US officials confirmed yesterday, as they gave details of the biggest military operation in the country since the Black Hawk Down disaster 16 years ago.
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a 30-year-old Kenyan wanted for a series of terror attacks in East Africa, was shot from a fleet of helicopter gunships on Monday as he travelled in a convoy near the coastal town of Barawe. Witnesses and security sources said that up to six helicopters flew in low, chasing a convoy that included a Land Cruiser taking foreign Islamist fighters to a meeting in Barawe.
Their vehicle was protected by a fleet of “technicals”, the improvised Somali battle wagons with heavy weapons welded on to them. Sources described how, as two of the helicopters landed, four others circled overhead, their heavy machineguns providing cover. In the ensuing battle the Land Cruiser and eight technicals were destroyed.
After killing Nabhan and at least four others — including Sheikh Hussein Ali Fidow, a senior commander of the Somali insurgent group al-Shebab — the commandos carried away Nabhan’s body for identification and flew back to a US Fifth Fleet warship near by.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6836129.ece
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