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[identity profile] wobblerlorri.livejournal.com 2009-09-15 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh now, "invaded" is completely the wrong word to use here. We've been in Somalia to one degree or another since at least 1992. And it was a high-level al-Quaida commander they got.

The Somali govt seems pleased:

Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a Somali militia that has been fighting al-Shabab and is allied with the UN-backed government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, praised the US raid.

"We are very pleased with the helicopters that killed the foreign al-Shabab fighters," a spokesman, Sheikh Abdullahi Sheikh Abu Yussuf, told Reuters. "God sent birds against those who attacked the holy mosque, the Ka'ba, millennia ago. The same way, God has sent bombers against al-Shabab. We hope more aircraft will destroy the rest of al-Shabab, who have abused Islam and massacred Somalis."

Emphasis mine.
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