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24 January 2007
(SomaliNet) US AC 130 gunship has again bombed suspected Islamist and al-Qaeda hideouts in southern Somalia on Tuesday.
Residents told the local media that American warplanes had carried out air bombardments on Raskamboni and Kulbiyow in southern tip of the country where Somalia’s defeated Islamists and the al-Qaeda operatives are said to be hiding.
Witnesses reported many civilians were wounded, while number of livestock was killed in the latest US air strike.
Residents in Dhobley town near the Kenyan border, said the US air strike on the settlements in Jubba provinces, about 500 km south of the capital Mogadishu, has inflicted casualties which are still unknown. American warplanes were seen flying overhead Somali settlements near the Kenyan border yesterday.
According to Shabelle radio, villagers saw nearly 20 war planes flying over the areas where the strike took place, but said they heard no sounds of gunship shots or explosions.
American and Ethiopian warplanes have launched an aerial bombings on more than 300 km square of the jungle in southern Somalia were the Islamists and suspected al-Qaeda operatives were hiding ever since they were driven out of the capital and other parts of the country on late December last year.
Source: www.somalinet.com