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Scoop Link: US Launches Two Airstrikes in Somalia

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US Launches Two Airstrikes in Somalia


By Mohamed Olad Hassan
The Associated Press
Tuesday 09 January 2007

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/09/ap/world/mainD8MHRQNO0.shtml

One or more U.S. military gunships struck at least two sites in Somalia where Islamists were believed to be sheltering suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in East Africa and many people were killed, Somali officials and witnesses said Tuesday.

It was the first overt military action by the U.S. in Somalia since the 1990s and the legacy of a botched intervention - known as "Black Hawk Down" - that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead. The U.S. military said Tuesday it had sent an aircraft carrier to join three other U.S. warships conducting anti-terror operations off the Somali coast.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/09/ap/world/mainD8MHRQNO0.shtml

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