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Airstrike Rekindles Somalis? Anger at the U.S.
Michael Kamber for The New York Times
A street scene in Mogadishu Tuesday. The city?s mood took on an anti-American tone after Sunday?s air raid.
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By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: January 10, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 9 ? Somali officials said Tuesday that dozens of people were killed in an American airstrike on Sunday, most of them Islamist fighters fleeing in armed pickup trucks across a remote, muddy stretch of the KenyaSomalia border.
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American officials said terrorists from Al Qaeda had been the target of the strike, which they said had killed about a dozen people. But the officials acknowledged that the identities of the victims were still unknown.
Several residents of the area, in the southern part of the country, said dozens of civilians had been killed, and news of the attack immediately set off new waves of anti-American anger in Mogadishu, Somalia?s battle-scarred capital, where the United States has a complicated legacy.
?They?re just trying to get revenge for what we did to them in 1993,? said Deeq Salad Mursel, a taxi driver, referring to the infamous ?Black Hawk Down? episode in which Somali gunmen killed 18 American soldiers and brought down two American helicopters during an intense battle in Mogadishu.
The country?s Islamist movement swiftly seized much of Somalia last year and ruled with mixed success, bringing a much desired semblance of peace but also a harsh brand of Islam.
Two weeks ago, that all changed after Ethiopian-led troops routed the Islamist forces and helped bring the Western-backed transitional government to Mogadishu. Ethiopian officials said the Islamists were a growing regional threat.
The last remnants of the Islamist forces fled to Ras Kamboni, an isolated fishing village on the Kenyan border that residents said had been used as a terrorist sanctuary before. Starting in the mid-1990s, they said, the Islamists built trenches, hospitals and special terrorist classrooms in the village and taxed local fisherman to pay the costs.
On Sunday, an American AC-130 gunship pounded the area around Ras Kamboni, and also a location father north where American officials said three ringleaders of the bombings in 1998 of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were hiding. Somali officials said those bombings had been planned in Ras Kamboni after a local Somali terrorist outfit invited Al Qaeda to use the village as a base.
According to Abdul Rashid Hidig, a member of Somalia?s transitional parliament who represents the border area, the American airstrike on Sunday wiped out a long convoy of Islamist leaders trying to flee deeper into the bush, though he said he did not know if the specific suspects singled out by the United States had been with them.
?Their trucks got stuck in the mud and they were easy targets,? he said.
Mr. Hidig toured the area with military officials on Tuesday and said he had met several captured foreign fighters who had come from Europe and the Middle East. ?I saw two white guys and asked, Where are you from?? Mr. Hidig said. ?One said Jordan, the other Sweden. Yeah, it was weird.?
Mr. Hidig said two civilians had been killed by the airstrike, but representatives of the Islamist forces said it had killed many more.
The Islamists? health director said dozens of nomadic herdsmen and their families were grazing their animals in the same wet valley that the Islamists were trying to drive across. ?Their donkeys, their camels, their cows ? they?ve all been destroyed,? he said. ?And many children were killed.?
He spoke by telephone from an undisclosed location; his account could not be independently verified.
Mustef Yunis Culusow, a former Islamist leader who abandoned the movement days ago, said the once-powerful Islamist movement?s top leaders were now trapped in a small village with Ethiopian soldiers in front of them, the Indian Ocean behind them and now American gunships circling above them.
?The leaders know they?re finished,? Mr. Culusow said in a telephone interview from Kismayo, a large town north of Ras Kamboni. ?They?ve basically told the young fighters they can go, it?s over, and that anyone who stays behind should be resigned to die.?
For several days, Ethiopian fighter jets and helicopter gunships have been laying down a blanket of fire over the area , and attacks continued on Tuesday.
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Jeffrey Gettleman reported from Mogadishu, and Mark Mazzetti from Washington. Mohammed Ibrahim and Yuusuf Maxamuud contributed reporting from Mogadishu.
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Airstrike Rekindles Somalis? Anger at the U.S.
Michael Kamber for The New York Times
A street scene in Mogadishu Tuesday. The city?s mood took on an anti-American tone after Sunday?s air raid.
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By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: January 10, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 9 ? Somali officials said Tuesday that dozens of people were killed in an American airstrike on Sunday, most of them Islamist fighters fleeing in armed pickup trucks across a remote, muddy stretch of the KenyaSomalia border.
Skip to next paragraph
Multimedia
Back Story With The Times's Jeffrey Gettleman (mp3)
Agence France Prsse ? Getty Images
Interim Somali leaders, from left: Premier Ali Mohammed Gedi, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle.
American officials said terrorists from Al Qaeda had been the target of the strike, which they said had killed about a dozen people. But the officials acknowledged that the identities of the victims were still unknown.
Several residents of the area, in the southern part of the country, said dozens of civilians had been killed, and news of the attack immediately set off new waves of anti-American anger in Mogadishu, Somalia?s battle-scarred capital, where the United States has a complicated legacy.
?They?re just trying to get revenge for what we did to them in 1993,? said Deeq Salad Mursel, a taxi driver, referring to the infamous ?Black Hawk Down? episode in which Somali gunmen killed 18 American soldiers and brought down two American helicopters during an intense battle in Mogadishu.
The country?s Islamist movement swiftly seized much of Somalia last year and ruled with mixed success, bringing a much desired semblance of peace but also a harsh brand of Islam.
Two weeks ago, that all changed after Ethiopian-led troops routed the Islamist forces and helped bring the Western-backed transitional government to Mogadishu. Ethiopian officials said the Islamists were a growing regional threat.
The last remnants of the Islamist forces fled to Ras Kamboni, an isolated fishing village on the Kenyan border that residents said had been used as a terrorist sanctuary before. Starting in the mid-1990s, they said, the Islamists built trenches, hospitals and special terrorist classrooms in the village and taxed local fisherman to pay the costs.
On Sunday, an American AC-130 gunship pounded the area around Ras Kamboni, and also a location father north where American officials said three ringleaders of the bombings in 1998 of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were hiding. Somali officials said those bombings had been planned in Ras Kamboni after a local Somali terrorist outfit invited Al Qaeda to use the village as a base.
According to Abdul Rashid Hidig, a member of Somalia?s transitional parliament who represents the border area, the American airstrike on Sunday wiped out a long convoy of Islamist leaders trying to flee deeper into the bush, though he said he did not know if the specific suspects singled out by the United States had been with them.
?Their trucks got stuck in the mud and they were easy targets,? he said.
Mr. Hidig toured the area with military officials on Tuesday and said he had met several captured foreign fighters who had come from Europe and the Middle East. ?I saw two white guys and asked, Where are you from?? Mr. Hidig said. ?One said Jordan, the other Sweden. Yeah, it was weird.?
Mr. Hidig said two civilians had been killed by the airstrike, but representatives of the Islamist forces said it had killed many more.
The Islamists? health director said dozens of nomadic herdsmen and their families were grazing their animals in the same wet valley that the Islamists were trying to drive across. ?Their donkeys, their camels, their cows ? they?ve all been destroyed,? he said. ?And many children were killed.?
He spoke by telephone from an undisclosed location; his account could not be independently verified.
Mustef Yunis Culusow, a former Islamist leader who abandoned the movement days ago, said the once-powerful Islamist movement?s top leaders were now trapped in a small village with Ethiopian soldiers in front of them, the Indian Ocean behind them and now American gunships circling above them.
?The leaders know they?re finished,? Mr. Culusow said in a telephone interview from Kismayo, a large town north of Ras Kamboni. ?They?ve basically told the young fighters they can go, it?s over, and that anyone who stays behind should be resigned to die.?
For several days, Ethiopian fighter jets and helicopter gunships have been laying down a blanket of fire over the area , and attacks continued on Tuesday.
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Jeffrey Gettleman reported from Mogadishu, and Mark Mazzetti from Washington. Mohammed Ibrahim and Yuusuf Maxamuud contributed reporting from Mogadishu.
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