More than 150 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in a U.S. military strike Saturday using manned aircraft and drones, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters Monday.
The strike targeted a terrorist training camp in Raso, Somalia, located 120 miles north of the capital city of Mogadishu. The camp, which held up to 200 fighters at a time, was preparing to conduct a “large scale attack” against U.S. and African forces sometime in the future, according to Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis. The attack occurred “near the end of that training,” Davis said, but he did not reveal how the U.S. military made that determination. There were no indications of civilian casualties, Davis said. The camp had been under close observation for two weeks before the strike, according to Davis. “We struck the camp and destroyed it,” he said. Data curated by FindTheData <http://www.findthedata.com/> *Lucas Tomlinson is the Pentagon and State Department producer for Fox News Channel. * -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
