Webloggin » Al-Qaeda Dead

One of my wishes for the new year was more dead terrorists – not captured, not jailed – dead. My wish was granted yesterday. A United States Air Force AC-130 gunship opened fire on al-qaeda members in Somalia, … the targets included the senior al-Qaida leader in East Africa and an al-Qaida operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (AP via Webloggin)

The same operatives are also believed responsible for a 2002 attack on Israeli tourists in Kenya and an attempt to shoot down an Israeli aircraft the same day, NBC News reported.

The 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed more than 250 people. The 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya killed 15. (AP)

The aircraft carrier Eisenhower has been off the Somali coast to stop any fleeing al-Qaeda terrorists. Yes folks, the ‘Islamists‘ or Islamic Courts Union in Solamlia is connected to al-Qaeda.

U.S. intelligence believes Abu Talha al-Sudani, identified in grand jury testimony against Osama bin Laden as an explosives expert from Sudan, is the leader of east Africa’s al Qaeda cell and has been in and out of Somalia for over a decade. source

Bad guys are dead, but what is the MSM reporting? Do a search for al-Qaeda dead Somalia and almost all the resulting headlines will read, “many dead”. Reuters, “many dead”, others here, and here, and here. If innocents were killed, then they should not have been hanging out with terrorists. Emphasis on the “if”.

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