{"id":1073,"date":"2007-01-08T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/breaking-news-u-s-strikes-al-qaida-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T00:57:00","slug":"breaking-news-u-s-strikes-al-qaida-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/breaking-news-u-s-strikes-al-qaida-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: U.S. strikes al-Qaida in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:country-region> forces have struck what officials say is a suspected al-Qaida terrorist camp in <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Somalia<\/st1:country-region> in <st1:place st=\"on\">East  Africa<\/st1:place>, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/08\/world\/main2335451.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> officials say they were targeting high-level terrorist leaders. They sent in an AC-130 gunship, capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and a source told CBS \u201ca lot\u201d of bodies littered the ground after the strike, which took place in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Details about the strike are still emerging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Somalia<\/st1:country-region> was invaded by neighboring <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Ethiopia<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> last month in a successful attempt to unseat an Islamic government that the Bush Administration says was supported by al-Qaeda. <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Ethiopia<\/st1:country-region> has received nearly $20 million in military aid from the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> since late 2002, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2007-01-07-ethiopia_x.htm?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a> reported today. That money was key to the Ethiopian invasion, which opens a new front in the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United   States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019 war on terror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The strike is certain to further complicate a debate over <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:country-region> and the war on terror two days before President Bush is set to announce a new strategy in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> that he\u2019ll try to sell to a Democratic-controlled Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Incidentally, <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Ethiopia<\/st1:country-region> is the only East African nation between <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Somalia<\/st1:country-region> and <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">Sudan<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, where Gov. Bill Richardson is currently trying to help negotiate a peace agreement. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.find-our-community.net\/region\/Africa\/North_East_Africa_map.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view a map of the region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces have struck what officials say is a suspected al-Qaida terrorist camp in Somalia in East Africa, according to CBS News. U.S. officials say they were targeting high-level terrorist leaders. They sent in an AC-130 gunship, capable of firing thousands of rounds per second, and a source told CBS \u201ca lot\u201d of bodies littered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}