{"id":451348,"date":"2011-06-30T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:06:27","slug":"us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"US ‘extends drone strikes to Somalia’"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

A US drone aircraft is reported to have fired upon\u00a0two senior members of al-Shabab, the Islamist anti-government\u00a0armed group, in Somalia last week, marking the first time a\u00a0US unmanned plane has been used for such\u00a0an attack inside the country.<\/p>\n

The strike, said to have been carried out on June 23,\u00a0is believed to have\u00a0targeted a convoy of fighters belonging to al-Shabab, which is fighting to overthrow Somalia’s weak Transitional National Government and impose Islamic law.<\/p>\n

The attack was not immediately identified as a drone strike, but a senior US military official familiar with the operation told the Washington Post<\/em> newspaper on Thursday that it had come from such an aircraft.<\/p>\n

The strike would make Somalia the sixth country where the US has reportedly used drones to conduct air strikes.<\/p>\n

They have also been used in Libya, Yemen, Iraq and most extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The strike hit the convoy as it drove along the cost in Kismayo, a southern port town, the AP news agency reported. Two fighters were wounded.<\/p>\n

Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig, the deputy defence minister,\u00a0declined to identify who the fighters were or who carried out the attack, except to say it had been done by a “partner country”.<\/p>\n

In 2009, a raid involving US special operations troops succeeded in killing Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Kenyan national wanted for a 2002 truck bombing at a tourist hotel in Mombasa.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab, which\u00a0is believed to maintain links with al-Qaeda franchises,\u00a0is growing stronger as it consolidates its hold on the majority of Somali territory, including more than half of the capital, Mogadishu.<\/p>\n

“They have become somewhat emboldened of late, and, as a result, we have become more focused on inhibiting their activities,” the US official told the Post<\/em>. “They were planning operations outside of Somalia.”<\/p>\n

The Somali Transitional\u00a0National Government, led by President Sharif Ahmed, relies on international funding and military support from the African Union\u00a0to maintain its tenuous hold on power.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

See original article:
\nUS ‘extends drone strikes to Somalia’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A US drone aircraft is reported to have fired upon\u00a0two senior members of al-Shabab, the Islamist anti-government\u00a0armed group, in Somalia last week, marking the first time a\u00a0US unmanned plane has been used for such\u00a0an attack inside the country. The strike, said to have been carried out on June 23,\u00a0is believed to have\u00a0targeted a convoy of fighters belonging to al-Shabab, which is fighting to overthrow Somalia’s weak Transitional National Government and impose Islamic law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nUS 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"US 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A US drone aircraft is reported to have fired upon\u00a0two senior members of al-Shabab, the Islamist anti-government\u00a0armed group, in Somalia last week, marking the first time a\u00a0US unmanned plane has been used for such\u00a0an attack inside the country. The strike, said to have been carried out on June 23,\u00a0is believed to have\u00a0targeted a convoy of fighters belonging to al-Shabab, which is fighting to overthrow Somalia's weak Transitional National Government and impose Islamic law\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"US ‘extends drone strikes to Somalia’\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-30T20:06:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/\"},\"wordCount\":343,\"commentCount\":0,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/\",\"name\":\"US 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-30T20:06:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"US 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"US 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"A US drone aircraft is reported to have fired upon\u00a0two senior members of al-Shabab, the Islamist anti-government\u00a0armed group, in Somalia last week, marking the first time a\u00a0US unmanned plane has been used for such\u00a0an attack inside the country. The strike, said to have been carried out on June 23,\u00a0is believed to have\u00a0targeted a convoy of fighters belonging to al-Shabab, which is fighting to overthrow Somalia's weak Transitional National Government and impose Islamic law","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"US ‘extends drone strikes to Somalia’","datePublished":"2011-06-30T20:06:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/"},"wordCount":343,"commentCount":0,"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/","name":"US 'extends drone strikes to Somalia' - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-06-30T20:06:27+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/us-extends-drone-strikes-to-somalia\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}