US drone 'kills 150 Somali militants'
Source: BBC
A US drone strike has killed more than 150 al-Shebab militants in Somalia, the Pentagon says.
Spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said the strike hit a training camp where a "large-scale" attack was being planned.
"We know they were going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and [African Union] forces," Captain Davis said.
"Initial assessments are that more than 150 terrorist fighters were eliminated," he added.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35748986
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)destroying a lot of the al queda leadership (of murderers).
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)How many wives, husbands, children, mothers, father, will grieve?
Shame on this country.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,725 posts)as a result of this strike?
Awaiting further details....
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)bad for osama's wives and children when the military got him?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,725 posts)Who was going to feed them? Didja thank about that? Huh?
I blame America.
(Please don't make me add that sarcasm thingy.)
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I'm sure the neighbors took care of the pets.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)And no, I'm not the least bit ashamed.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Seriously, there's a lack of critical thinking when it comes to drones.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)And even if it were a training camp, why are we killing them? This stuff goes over people's heads because, well, you just kill people, don't you? Isn't that how it's done?
And then the same applies to solutions.
Cavallo
(348 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)These al-shabab kooks are just as bad as al-qaeda and isis.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Grenade launchers, machine guns, and 2,000 assault rifles were concealed under fishing nets, a Navy spokesman said.
What country arms terrorist groups, ships and sells to them? what gun Corp sells to anyone with cash?
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Some of the soldiers make some extra money due to:
- Some of the guns "fall off" the back of the trucks.
- Some of the trucks fail to arrive.
Some of the governments give the arms as an "aid package".
rollin74
(1,993 posts)NickB79
(19,285 posts)Because in Afghanistan, any male over the age of 13 is basically a terrorist fighter in the eyes of the US government: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/29/drone-attacks-innocent-civilians_n_1554380.html
Obama, Becker and Shane write, was angry when informed that the first drone strike after he took office had killed innocent Pakistanis. But one of the measures the administration embraced to prevent future innocent casualties was to embrace a method of counting combatants that would rope in more innocents.
"It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent," the Times reports. "Counterterrorism officials insist this approach is one of simple logic: people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good."
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Not a single non-combatant killed? It doesn't make sense...
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)The world is slightly better without them now.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)... that a number of equally ignorant people said the same thing on 12 September 2001 ...
Hurrah! Let us cheer the deaths of strangers thousands of miles away because our
Glorious Leaders say that it is a good thing!
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Eugene
(61,974 posts)Source: BBC
8 March 2016 Africa
Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has dismissed as exaggerated US claims that more than 150 of its fighters were killed in an air strike in Somalia.
The militants do not meet in such large numbers in "one spot" because of the threat of an attack, a spokesman said.
He did not give details of casualties.
A resident said that al-Shabab had arrested several people from the remote central Somali village of Raso, after the US bombed its training camp in a nearby forested area on Saturday.
The US said the strike, by both drones and manned aircraft, was aimed at preventing a "large-scale attack" by the al-Qaeda-linked militants.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35753866
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)When atrocities are reported in the media or discussed on the Internet it loses something.
For example, if a group kidnaps some women and gang rapes them, we feel horrible anger and want them locked up. If we were actually there and watched those women being raped (for, say, a half hour to an hour), we'd probably want to jump in and physically harm them (if not kill them).
Now, I understand that you can't punish people based on your emotions while watching them be gang raped, but I do think we'd be much more harsh with our punishments if we actually saw, with our own eyes, what actually happens (in some cases).
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)Let them have 10 more strikes. Just to be sure of course.