'Foreign' helicopter raid kills wanted militant in Somalia.Byline: Daily Star Staff Summary: Suspected foreign commandos in helicopters attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of the region's most wanted Most Wanted may refer to:
tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. , missile attack on an Israeli airliner leaving Kenya's Mombasa airport in 2002. MOGADISHU: Suspected foreign commandos in helicopters attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of the region's most wanted militants, witnesses and a Somali government source said. Kenya-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, was wanted over a hotel bombing and simultaneous, but botched, missile attack on an Israeli airliner leaving Kenya's Mombasa airport in 2002. A senior Somali government source in Mogadishu told Reuters the fugitive had been riding in a car with other Islamist insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. when they were attacked near Roobow village in Barawe District, some 250 kilometers south of the capital. "Nabhan and four other top foreign commanders of militant groups were killed in the raid," the source said. "These young fighters do not have the same skills as their colleagues in Afghanistan or elsewhere when it comes to foreign airstrikes," the government source added. "They are in confusion now. I hope the world takes action." Local man Bashir Abdi said the foreign commandos who carried out the raid were wearing French flags on the shoulders of their uniforms. But a spokesman for the French Defense Ministry, Christophe Prazuck, denied any French soldiers were involved. "We don't have any military presence in that region C* there are no forces in that territory," Prazuck said in Paris. Western security agencies say the failed Horn of Africa Horn of Africa, peninsula, NE Africa, opposite the S Arabia Peninsula. Also known as the Somali Peninsula, it encompasses Somalia and E Ethiopia and is the easternmost extension of the continent, separating the Gulf of Aden from the Indian Ocean. state has become a safe haven for militants, including foreign jihadists, who use it to plot attacks in the region and beyond. Nabhan is believed to have owned the truck used in the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned beach hotel in Kenya that killed 15 people. He is then thought to have fled to Somalia. The US says another leading Al-Qaeda suspect who may be in Somalia, Sudanese explosives expert Abu Talha al-Sudani, is believed to have orchestrated the Mombasa attack. Several residents and insurgents in Barawe said Nabhan was among those killed in the operation, but they declined to be identified for fear of reprisals REPRISALS, war. The forcibly taking a thing by one nation which belonged to another, in return or satisfaction for a injury committed by the latter on the former. Vatt. B., 2, ch. 18, s. 342; 1 Bl. Com. ch. 7. 2. . French forces have launched commando raids in Somalia in the past to rescue French nationals held by rebels and pirates. Paris maintains a large military base in neighboring Djibouti. Neither the Somali government nor rebels have helicopters. The US military has also launched airstrikes inside Somalia, targeting individuals Washington blames for the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1988. In May last year, US war planes killed the then-leader of Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda's top man in the country, Afghan-trained Aden Hashi Ayro, in an attack on the town of Dusamareb. -- Reuters Aa Egypt hands 'pirates' over to Puntland Aa MOGADISHU: Egypt on Monday handed over to Somalia's Puntland authorities eight suspected pirates who had seized two Egyptian fishing vessels Customary International Law provides that coastal fishing boats and small boats engaged in trade, as distinguished from seagoing fishing boats and large traders, are immune from attack and seizure during war. This Immunity is lost if fishing vessels take part in the hostilities. before being overpowered o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. by the crew, officials said.Aa "We have received the eight pirates from Egyptian officials. They are now in the hands of the police for questioning and will be awaiting trial," the governor of Puntland's Bari region, Muse Gele Farole, told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. .Aa The eight suspects were handed over in the Gulf of Aden Noun 1. Gulf of Aden - arm of the Indian Ocean at the entrance to the Red Sea Indian Ocean - the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south port of Bosasso, the economic capital of northern Somalia's semi-autonomous region.Aa A senior Puntland police official confirmed that the eight were held in a Bosasso jail. Puntland has already sentenced dozens of pirates detained by foreign navies in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden to heavy jail terms.Aa The FV Momtaz 1 and FV Samara Samara, river, Russia Samara (səmä`rə), river, c.360 mi (580 km) long, rising in the foothills of the S Urals, European Russia. It flows generally northwest, and joins the Volga River at Samara. vessels got a hero's welcome in Egypt last month after reports that the crews managed to disarm the pirates. They made their way back up the Red Sea with the eight locked up in refrigerated re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. holds.Aa The two ships were allegedly stopped on April 10 for illegal fishing and were held off the small coastal town of Las Qoray. -- AFP Copyright 2009, The Daily Star. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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