Commando Raid in Somalia

[JHC]

Wicked cool article from this milblog which is one of the best places I've found to keep track open source-wise.

I figured that shadowy Madagascar hit a good while back was this sort of thing.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/09/commando_raid_in_som.php

[tease]
According to one witness, upwards of six helicopters were involved in the raid. At least two AH-6 Little Bird special operations attack helicopters strafed the two-car convoy. Other helicopters dismounted Navy SEALs, who seized the body of Nabhan and another, and purportedly took two other wounded fighters captive.

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/09/commando_raid_in_som.php#ixzz0RC9fIyP8

[HPLLC]

A successful raid- Good deal!

[BiggLee71]

Good stuff.Lets hope we keep the pressure on.Maybe they'll start thinking twice about joining an international crime syndicate when they know theres a disitinct possibility the "men in black" might arrive at any time with a hail of bullets for em!

[Rider]

Very good news, keep up the good work!

[SeriousStudent]

I am glad to hear that our military was successful, and I hope that none of our very brave folks were injured.

[JHC]

A pity that water boarding is off the table.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/09/somali_al_qaeda_leaders_captur.php

Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera has some interesting news on the covert raid conducted by US Special Forces, dubbed Celestial Balance, that targeted an al Qaeda leader in Southern Somalia on Sept. 14th. According to a local stringer for the newspaper, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was not killed but captured alive. Along with Nabhan, American commandos apprehended Abu Mansur al Amriki, the American convert to Islam who has become a commander in charge of military training for Shabaab.

Amriki can be seen in Shabaab's latest propaganda videotape, released on Sunday, leading the training of Shabaab fighters at the Abu Suleim camp.

Witnesses in the village of Roboow told the Il Corriere della Sera stringer that both al Qaeda commanders were boarded on helicopters, then they were probably transferred onto US Navy ships stationing at large off the Somali coast. “Capturing the man sent by Osama to set up the Somali insurgency would be a huge success” for the Americans, says the Italian newspaper. But, as Il Corriere repeatedly points out, this news has not been confirmed.

[TMMT]

Guess Obambi will have to apologize for this at the UN as well...

[thedog]

I hope we're working on Mexico with SpecOps as well. But you may as well start here in S. Tx. with so many corrupt Latino elected officials, cops, etc...:mad:

maddog