Aideed Former US Marine and Current deputy PM of Somalia...wants Special Forces on the ground

Looks like he's providing cover, since they are already on the ground according to anon. military sources.


Hussein Aidid, deputy prime minister of the Transitional Federal Government Somalia, in Nairobi, in this Dec 30, 2006 file photo. Hussein Aideed told The Associated Press that Somali government forces are unable to capture the last remaining hideouts of suspected extremists, who are bunkered in with enough food and water to last them for years. 'The only way we are going to kill or capture the surviving al-Qaida terrorists is for U.S. special forces to go in on the ground,' Hussein Aideed, a former U.S. marine said. 'They have the know-how and the right equipment to capture these people.' (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

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"As far as we are aware they are not on the ground yet, but it is only a matter of time," Aideed said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_af/somalia

Four-nation effort targets Al-Qaida forces in Somalia
By Jonathan S. Landay and Shashank Bengali
McClatchy Washington Bureau

NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States, Ethiopia, the transitional Somalian government and Kenya coordinated land, sea and air operations Tuesday against Al-Qaida operatives and remnants of Somalia's defeated Islamist militias in a southern corner of the war-ravaged African nation, U.S. and Somalian officials said.

U.S. participation in the effort marked a significant step-up in the Bush administration's anti-terrorist operations in the strategic Horn of Africa, where a 1,800-strong U.S. task force has been involved largely in aid and reconstruction work for the past five years.

The Boston Globe, quoting U.S. military and intelligence officials, reported that U.S. Special Forces have been deployed on the ground to track suspected Al-Qaida members near the Kenyan border.

A U.S. military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the special forces accompanied Ethiopian troops into Somalia roughly two weeks ago, the Globe reported.

more;http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16425169.htm?source=rss

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Gate's Cleans House
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2682176

Have we learned nothing at all?

The pilot, Mike Durant was wounded and captured, and was later handed over.

All the Ranger dead went out with the rescue convoy.

U.S. troops entered Somalia after raid: report Thu Jan 11, 11:42 PM ET



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small team of U.S. military personnel entered southern Somalia to try to determine who was killed in a U.S. airstrike targeting suspected al-Qaeda figures, The Washington Post reported, citing U.S. sources.

The report Friday said the search team marks the first known case of U.S. military boots on the ground in Somalia since a disastrous peacekeeping mission ended in 1994 after Somali militiamen downed two Black Hawk helicopters and killed 18 U.S. soldiers in Mogadishu.

It was unclear on Thursday whether the U.S. search team remained inside Somalia, The Washington Post reported.

U.S. officials have been cautious about sending American military personnel into Somalian territory, but after Monday's attack it was seen as a necessary risk to positively identify the casualties, the newspaper said.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070112/ts_nm/somalia_usa_troops_dc_1

CIA maybe, Army/Navy/Marines heck no.