U.S. Strikes with Predator Drones in Somali
UPI
June 30, 2011
An unmanned aircraft attacked two leaders of a militant Somali group with ties al-Qaida apparently wounding the targets, a U.S. military official said.
The drone strike occurred last week against senior members of al-Shabaab, coming as concern grows within the U.S. government that some leaders of the Islamist group are working more closely with al-Qaida to strike targets outside of Somalia, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Somalia is at least the sixth country in which the United States is using drones to conduct airstrikes, the Post reported, joining Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen.
Article printed from Infowars: http://www.infowars.com
URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-strikes-with-predator-drones-in-somali/
Click here to print.