Three Missiles; One Seriously Renovated Home In Somalia

The US continues to support anti-terrorist operations in the Horn of Africa, with an airstrike in Somalia against a home purporting to provide cover for al Qaeda operatives.

The U.S. launched an airstrike Monday on a Somali town held by Islamic extremists to go after a group of terrorist suspects, U.S. defense officials said.

Three missiles hit Dobley, a town four miles from the Kenyan border, destroying a home and seriously injured eight people, police and witnesses said. The remnants of an Islamic force that had once ruled much of southern Somalia took over Dobley last week.

"It was a deliberate, precise strike against a known terrorist and his associates," one U.S. military official said in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the record.

He gave few other details, except to say the targets were believed staying in building known to be used regularly by terrorist suspects.

Last year, the U.S. shelled suspected al-Qaida targets in Somalia, using gunfire from a U.S. Navy ship off the shore of the east African nation.

Hot Air wonders whether one of the targets was an al Qaeda terrorist who was responsible for the US Embassy bombings in 1999. They also note that the US seems to think that they got who they were targeting. If true, good hunting.