Destroyer USS Chafee targets suspect in 1998 Africa embassy bombings
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Jim Miklaszewski
Chief Pentagon correspondent
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By Jim Miklaszewski
Chief Pentagon correspondent
NBC News
WASHINGTON - The destroyer USS Chafee fired her deck guns at two or three suspected "high-value terrorist targets" in the Puntland area along the northern coast of Somalia on Saturday, U.S. officials told NBC News. The three suspects are accused of taking part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
According to the officials, the U.S. had "actionable intelligence” gathered by U.S. Special Operations Forces and local tribal leaders that the suspects were in the area.
Out of fear that the suspects would leave the area, the decision was made to order the
strike from the Chafee, which fired 20 five-inch rounds from her deck guns.
The Chafee was the U.S. military's closest asset, the officials said. Airstrikes would have come too late.
There has been no battle damage assessment to determine if any of the suspects were killed or wounded in the attack, the officials told NBC News.
One of the suspects, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, had also been targeted in December in airstrikes by U.S. AC-130 gunships in Somalia.
FBI via Getty Images FILE
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a suspected terrorist wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Nairobi, is shown in a photo released by the FBI on Oct. 10, 2001, in Washington.
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He is the leader of the East Africa cell of al-Qaida and is believed to be the mastermind of the al-Qaida attacks in 1998 on U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed more than 200 people.
He was also the author of the 2002 attacks on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and the attempted shoot-down of an Israeli charter plane that same day.
Yosra,
Why don't you get a life! go merry Ceyrow have a myriads of nuckle head mooryaan, so that they can help your wicked desire of mooryaanism, before they get eredicated.
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Baargaal a ship fires, ehehehehe. Mac sonkor, muqaawama had to be eliminated everywhere, no mercy.
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This Emprialist and moraly bankrup and corrupt USA is standing
on its last leg they sense the end is near.
Out of all problems they face USS CHAFEE target individuals of the
coast of somalia.
US OR NOT Puntland , somaliland , british Brainwashedland the Mujahdiin are coming
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I really don't see a any countrymen (Somali) for al qaida-rubbish, but if this kind power arrogance by US sponsered Ethioppian occupation continues,then we have a problem! Or what do you say, Mr Snow at the white?
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Yosra Sheekadaas dadka mareekanka baa loogu sheekeeyaa si aaysan u kicin. waxaa loogu sheekeenaa Fazul Abdullah Mohammed baa tuuladaas joogo waana kii 1998 nairobe kharxiyay. Shacabka mareekanka ma ogo in halkaas dad somalia ah oo nidaamka pontland ka soo horjeedo ineey daganyihiin. Kismaayo xataa ninkaan baa loo isticmalay oo shacab badan ac 130 lagu dhameeyay. hadana shacab badan baa tuuladaan ku dhintay. waa lagaa qarinaa. USA meeshuu rabo inuu weeraro wuxuu dhahaayaan ninkaan baa joogo xataa bosaso hadee noqoto.
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Maal mahaan qofkaad ka cabsaneesid aadan iska celin karin alqaida baa loogu wacaa. Raga meesha qabsaday waa dadkii meesha dagnaa ajanabina kuma jiro. Gaalada baa caawin looga raadsanaa rag carab ah baa ku jiraan blah blah. aaway so called darwish army? 30 nin maaa USA iyo Ethopia loogu wacanaa?
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How many times do you need "actionable intelligence" and how long does it take you to rid off the bad guys?
Apparently, the US guns aren't as accurate as they like us to believe. What happened to all those attacks
near Kismayo several months back? Didn't kill no one?
Maybe you should hire CARAWEELO to take out the "high value" guys with her sharp tongue.
Disgusting.
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"nimankii aan raadineeyney wali wax kamadhimanin. Waxaa
naloosheegay in ay aadeen sudaan". Waligeey waxan oo kale
ma arag. Ilaahay waa wax walba kawarhaye!!
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This type of Network must be eradicated from our soil.
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I don't believe a word of this so called 'actionable intelligence'gathered by US Special Forces as they put it . Neither do i support the presence of radical exterimists who are a magnet to the Americans and to all those who try every trick under the sun to undermine any tangable peace and stability in Somalia
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Goormuu Mareykanku ogaan doonaa in dadka hagaya sawaariikhdiisa ay yihiin beenaalayaashii ka danbeeyey bur-burka Soomaaliya, ilaa hadana kala dilaala "Pirates & human trafficing enterprises"?
Hadii uusan Mareykanku ka waantoobin inuu dadka qaarkiis la tashado, argagixisana ma heli doono, Soomaaliyana wuu ku fashilmi doonaa sida Ciraq. Markii uu taageerayey kooxihii la-baxay "Isbahaysiga la dagaalanka argagixisada", waatuu ku fashilmay oo dadkoo dhan ka soo hor jeesteen sababtoo ah dadku way yaqaanaan argagixisada runta ah inay yihiin Qanyare,Suudi,Mohamed Dheere, Qaybdiid,iyo kuwa la midka ah. Siday nooga dhaadhacsiin karaan inay galeen Soomaaliya iyagoo adeegsanaya 50,000 oo Ethiopian ah, US Airforce, Navy, iyo speed boats, si ay u ugaarsadaan 4 nin oo ka danbeeysey qaraxyadii Nairobi iyo Dar-salaam?
Hada oo kumanaan qof ay ku dhimatay xamar, boqolaal kun ay qaxday, magaaladii bur-burtay, Ras-Canbooni la duqeeyey, Baar-Gaal la garaacayo, wali ma waxaa la goobayaa Fazul Abdullah Mohamed? Sheekadaanu waa tii Ahmed Chalabi oo kale. Wuxuu Mareykanka sanado badan u sheegayey in Sadam Hussein uu haysto Nuclear, uuna gacan-saar la leeyahay argagixiso. Waatey dagaal aadeen oo khasaarooyin badan iyaga iyo Ciraaqba ka soo gaareen. Hada ooy ogyihiin in been laga gadey, waxay la'yihiin si ay uga baxaan cadaabka ay luguhooda ku doonteen. There is two sides to every coin.
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I DO NOT KNOW ANY ABOUT BAARGAAL BUT I UNDERSTAND IT IS SOMEWHERE NEAR BOSASO
I CAN SAY ONLY 1 THING MOGADISHO´S HEAT WILL BE FELT 1000s OF KLM
GAME IS NOT OVER YET
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Dhagar qabe dhulka u dhaqaqaa, as Somali proverb says.
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