[R-G] US military confirms launched strike in So. Somalia

[Anthony Fenton]

US military confirms launched strike in So. Somalia
Mon 3 Mar 2008, 12:13 GMT
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN03324190.html

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. military targeted suspected  
"terrorists" in a strike launched early on Monday in Dobley, Somalia,  
a senior U.S. military official said.

The official, who declined to be named, told Reuters: "We launched a  
deliberate strike against a suspected bed-down of known terrorists."

He said it was too early to know what damage had been inflicted,  
including whether any people were injured or killed in the strike  
launched overnight Washington time (early morning GMT). The official  
declined to give details on the type of weapon used.

This was the fourth U.S. air strike on Somalia in 14 months.

Local officials and witnesses in Somalia said they believed two  
missiles hit a makeshift house in Dobley, a town in a remote area of  
southern Somalia about 140 miles (220 km) from the port city of  
Kismayu, in a U.S. air strike against Islamist insurgents. (Reporting  
by Andrew Gray, Writing by Jackie Frank)