09 January 2007

Where is your God now?

UPDATE: 14 Jan 2007 - “Professional assistance” did the trick
No army in Africa was capable of doing this on its own, and it was unlikely that these Al-Qaeda bad guys were just going to go away, so the United States decided to do something about it.

The goal was limited to liquidating these targets. It was certainly not to re-establish ourselves in Somalia, nor to open up a new front.”

Have gun, will travel...
-- Armament: --
-two M61 20mm Vulcan cannons
with 3,000 rounds
-one L60 40mm Bofors cannon
with 256 rounds
-one M102 105mm howitzer
with 100 rounds o
-one 25mm GAU-12 Gatling gun
(1,800 rounds per minute)
-one L60 40mm Bofors cannon
(100 shots per minute)
-one M102 105mm cannon
(6-10 rounds per minute)
Crushing Al Qaeda... and a little payback for Gary Gordon and Randall Shugart... just to ice the cake.

UPDATE: 10 Jan 2007 - Convoy vaporised...
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... “Their trucks got stuck in the mud and they were easy targets,” he said.

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