Sunday, June 03, 2007
advertisements
BOSSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Six Islamist fighters, including foreigners from Western countries, were killed in U.S. air strikes and battles with local forces in northern Somalia this weekend, a regional official said on Sunday.
"Yesterday we killed six terrorists from America, Britain, Sweden, Morocco, Pakistan and Yemen," said Mohamed Ali Yusuf, finance minister in the semi-autonomous Puntland administration. "We came out victors and the fighting is over. Five Puntland troops were wounded," he told a news conference in Bossasso.
He gave no other details. Local forces on trucks fitted with heavy guns have blocked roads leading up to the mountain hideouts where American missiles crashed down on Friday. CNN said the attacks were targeting an al Qaeda suspect.
Source: Reuters, June 03, 2007