US kembali ke Somalia

malarky

Salam, mungkin ramai yang dah tahu yang U.S. recommit thier forces in Somalia....so I brought this topic for disscussion


Artikel yang dipetik dari yahoo.com

MOGADISHU, Somalia - U.S. helicopter gunships launched new attacks Tuesday against suspected al-Qaida members, a Somali official said, a day after forces launched airstrikes in the first offensive in the African country since 18 U.S. troops were killed there in 1993. Monday's attack was the first overt military action by the U.S. in Somalia since it led a U.N. force in the 1990s that intervened in Somalia in an effort to fight famine. The mission led to clashes between U.N. forces and Somali warlords, including the "Black Hawk Down" battle that left 18 U.S. servicemen dead.Helicopter gunships launched new attacks Tuesday near the scene of a U.S. airstrike in the village of Hayi, although it was not clear if they were American or Ethiopian aircraft, and it was not known if there were any casualties.Two helicopters "fired several rockets toward the road that leads to the Kenyan border," said Ali Seed Yusuf, a resident of the town of Afmadow in southern Somalia. The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived off Somalia's coast and launched intelligence-gathering missions over Somalia, the military said. Three other U.S. warships are conducting anti-terror operations off the Somali coast. U.S. warships have been seeking to capture al-Qaida members thought to be fleeing Somalia after Ethiopia invaded Dec. 24 in support of the government and drove the Islamic militia out of the capital and toward the Kenyan border.The White House would not confirm the attack, nor would the Pentagon. But a U.S. government official said at least one AC-130 gunship was used. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the operation's sensitivity.AC-130 gunships have elaborate sensors that can go after targets day or night. They are operated by the Special Operations Command and have been used heavily against the Taliban in Afganistan. The airstrike occurred Monday evening after the suspects were seen hiding on a remote island on the southern tip of Somalia, close to the Kenyan border, Somali officials said. The island and a site near the village of Hayi, 155 miles to the north, were hit. The main target was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who allegedly planned the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed 225 people. He is also suspected of planning the car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and the near simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002. Ten Kenyans and three Israelis were killed in the blast at the hotel, 12 miles north of Mombasa. The missiles missed the airliner.Fazul, 32, joined al-Qaida in Afghanistan and trained there with Osama bin Laden according to the transcript of an FBI interrogation of a known associate. He came to Kenya in the mid-1990s, married a local woman, became a citizen and started teaching at a religious school near Lamu, just 60 miles south of Ras Kamboni, Somalia, where one of the airstrikes took place Monday.Largely isolated, the coast north of Lamu is predominantly Muslim and many residents are of Arab descent. Boats from Lamu often visit Somalia and the Persian Gulf, making the Kenya-Somalia border area ideal for him to escape.President Abdullahi Yusuf told journalists in the capital, Mogadishu, that the U.S. "has a right to bombard terrorist suspects who attacked its embassies." Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Aideed told The Associated Press the U.S. had "our full support for the attacks."But others in the capital said the attacks would only increase anti-American sentiment in the largely Muslim country. "U.S. involvement in the fighting in our country is completely wrong," said Sahro Ahmed, a 37-year-old mother of five. Already, many people in predominantly Muslim Somalia had resented the presence of troops from neighboring Ethiopia, which has a large Christian population and has fought two brutal wars with Somalia, most recently in 1977. The U.S. Central Command reassigned the Eisenhower to Somalia last week from its mission supporting NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, said U.S. NAvy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Charlie Brown in Bahrain, where the Navy's Fifth Fleet is based. "Eisenhower aircraft have flown intelligence-gathering missions over Somalia," Brown told The Associated Press. The spokesman said the Eisenhower was the only U.S. aircraft carrier in the region. The vessel is carrying approximately 60 aircraft, including four fighter jet squadrons, he said. Ethiopia forces had invaded Somalia to prevent an Islamic movement from ousting the weak, internationally recognized government from its lone stronghold in the west of the country. The U.S. and Ethiopia both accuse the Islamic group of harboring extremists, among them al-Qaida suspects. Ethiopian troops, tanks and warplanes took just 10 days to drive the Islamic group from the capital, Mogadishu, and other key towns. Ethiopian and Somali troops had over the last days cornered the main Islamic force in Ras Kamboni, a town on Badmadow island, with U.S. warships patrolling off shore and the Kenyan military guarding the border to watch for fleeing militants. Witnesses said at least four civilians were killed in another attack 30 miles east of Afmadow town, including a small boy. The claims could not be independently verified. "My 4-year-old boy was killed in the strike," Mohamed Mahmud Burale told the AP by telephone. "We also heard 14 massive explosions." The AC-130 is armed with 40 mm guns that fire 120 rounds per minute and a 105 mm cannon, normally a field artillery weapon. The gunships were designed primarily for battlefield use to place saturated fire on massed troops. "We don't know how many people were killed in the attack but we understand there were a lot of casualties," government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari said. "Most were Islamic fighters." U.S. officials said after the Sept. 11 attacks that extremists with ties to al-Qaida operated a training camp at Ras Kamboni and al-Qaida members are believed to have visited it. Leaders of the Islamic movement have vowed from their hideouts to launch an IRAQ-style guerrilla war in Somalia, and al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden's deputy has called on militants to carry out suicide attacks on the Ethiopian troops. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in an interview published Tuesday in the French newspaper Le Monde that suspected terrorists from Canada, Britain, Pakistan and elsewhere have been among those taken prisoner or killed in the military operations in Somalia. Somalia has not had an effective central government since clan-based warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on each other, sinking the Horn of Africa nation of 7 million people into chaos. A U.N. peacekeeping force, including U.S. troops, arrived in 1992, but the experiment in nation-building ended the next year when fighters loyal to clan leader Mohamed Farah Aideed shot down a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and battled American troops, killing 18 servicemen. At least 13 attempts at government have failed since then. The current government was established in 2004 with U.N. backing.

An undated file photo shows an AC-130H Spectre gunship releasing flares.

jofizo

nih misi balas dendam nih.......... sekali cv dia bawak

standupper

patut ler masa aku ke sebuah bandar sempadan habsyah-somalia, hotel dipenuhi pelancong dan businessman lombong emas warga amerika.. siap bawak mobile satcom link! :bgrin:

tin

Stand,

biler hang nak ditugaskan ke somalia. Selalunya depa hantar hang untuk tugas tinjauan kan?

gede-bab

kali ni depa takkan hantar troop lagi kot...main bantai dari udara
dasar pengecut!

standupper

Yg last time tuh memang misi ke Moghadishu ler... tapi gagal ditengah jalan.. ibunegara tuh tengah riot gila puak syriah vs govt, pintu somalia tertutup untuk org luar, takde flight dan perlu ikut jalan darat, bila ikut darat plak boleh sampai part somaliland jer.. akhirnya team ku kehabisan bajet dan terpaksa berpatah balik ke adis abba.. sedihnya :cry: .. satu2nya misi yg tak kesampaian.

insignia

Originally posted by standupper at 10-1-2007 09:42 AM
Yg last time tuh memang misi ke Moghadishu ler... tapi gagal ditengah jalan.. ibunegara tuh tengah riot gila puak syriah vs govt, pintu somalia tertutup untuk org luar, takde flight dan perlu iku ...

stand x der pic ker...?
boleh ler letak sini bro..

IceMallet

Pasni ada la 'Revenge of the Rangers"

malarky

Originally posted by IceMallet at 10-1-2007 11:36 AM
Pasni ada la 'Revenge of the Rangers"

Hoooah!!!

kahmadz

Uncle Sam nak balas dendam kesumat..peristiwa Black Hawk Down tu memalukan US Mil dan US govt ..sbb tu depa buat film nak baiki balik imej operasi tentera mereka di sana...
sekarang masa untuk balas dendam ..ambil kesempatan..
guna pulak nama Al-Qaeda lagi...alasan jer tu...

IceMallet

Masa Clinton, dia tak mau bom macam tu..too high profile..tapi dengan Bush ni, sure dia ikut stail koboi Texas punyer..so prepare ler dia antar F18s pi bom Kismayo dan stronghold UIC..

tempur

pemimpin dia sanggup minta bantuan asing sehingga membunuh rakyat semata 2 nak jaga KUASA sedih....

standupper

Nanti aku carik kalau ada lagik...

btw : we got a spectre down!!!.. we got a spectre down!!!

malarky

Originally posted by standupper at 10-1-2007 01:11 PM
Nanti aku carik kalau ada lagik...

btw : we got a spectre down!!!.. we got a spectre down!!!

roger that...

Debmey

The americans are ctaching up on some unfinished buisness from the Clinton years.

HangPC2

tak serik dengan Black Hawk Down ker nih mesti ada sambungan lagi...

Debmey

no, not the black hawk down business, its the embassy bombings.

The islamists are trapped by their own imperialistic and terrorist ideology.

1. Had they not insist on incorporating al qaeda elements amongst them, US would not have gotten involved and attacked them.
2. Had they also not insist on professing to spread their activties to neighbours, ethiopia would also not be forced to wipe them out with such determination.
3. Had they not oppressed the somalians into following their extremists way of life, the somalians would not have sold them out, sided with the govt and ethiopians and shoot them in the back.

They ran like chickens as a result and end up in pieces and go up in smoke.

areguard

Yg menjadi mangsa umat Islam juga...

edmundo

Bila sesama they all tak bersatu, mudah aje pihak keryiga akn campur tangan.

ef/x

Do you guys know who is Mohammed Hussein Farah Aidid ?

He is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Somali Transitional Government and son of General Farah Aidid.

General Farah Aidid??? Ring a bell ?? Remember 'Black Hawk Down' ? His father was the warlord that the American tried to capture...

The Somali Transitional Government itself is a group of warlords sponserd by U.S

[ Last edited by  ef/x at 13-1-2007 04:09 PM ]