January 8, 2007
YOU FLUSH 'EM, WE'LL CRUSH 'EM:
CBS: U.S. Strikes Al Qaeda In Somalia (CBS/AP, 1/08/07)
A U.S. Air Force gunship has conducted a strike against suspected members of al Qaeda in Somalia, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2007 8:40 PMThe targets included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, Martin reports. Those terror attacks killed more than 200 people.
The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and sources say a lot of bodies were seen on the ground after the strike, but there is as yet, no confirmation of the identities.
The gunship flew from its base in Dijibouti down to the southern tip of Somalia, Martin reports, where the al Qaeda operatives had fled after being chased out of the capital of Mogadishu by Ethiopian troops backed by the United States.
"The AC-130 gunship is capable of firing thousands of rounds per second..."
That should be thousands of rounds per minute. Are all reporters so careless, ignorant of the military, and innumerate?
Posted by: jd watson at January 8, 2007 10:30 PMWhat do you expect from professional peeping toms? Why do you think they hate blogs so much? Can you imagine OJ in a press room? They hate people who know or do things with a passion.
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