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Friday, 2 May 2008

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US confirms Somali missile strike

The US military has confirmed that it carried out a pre-dawn missile strike which killed a senior leader of an Islamist militant group in Somalia. A spokesman said the target of the attack in the town of Dusamareb was an al-Qaeda leader, but would not name him or say whether it had been successful. But local elders have said up to 30 bodies have been recovered from the scene, according to unconfirmed reports. . . read more More news on Somalia - Ethiopia (US proxy) war. Somalia - East Africa's new Afghanistan? Meeting Somalia's Islamist insurgents