U.S. used Ethiopia for attacks on al-Qaeda

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U.S. used Ethiopia for attacks on al-Qaeda
January's attack on terrorists in Somalia a joint effort
By Michael R. Gordon and Mark Mazzetti
The New York Times


Washington - The U.S. military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of al-Qaeda in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip in eastern Ethiopia to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighboring Somalia, according to U.S. officials.

The close and largely clandestine relationship with Ethiopia also included significant sharing of intelligence on the Islamic militants' positions and information from U.S. spy satellites with the Ethiopian military.

Members of a secret U.S. Special Operations unit, Task Force 88, were deployed in Ethiopia and Kenya, and ventured into Somalia, the officials said.

The counterterrorism effort was described by U.S. officials as a qualified success that disrupted terrorist networks in the East African nation, led to the death and capture of several Islamic militants and involved a collaborative relationship with Ethiopia that had been developing for years.

But the tally of the dead and captured does not as yet include some al-Qaeda leaders whom the United States has hunted for their suspected roles in the attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998...>

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1. this says it all right here:

''But the tally of the dead and captured does not as yet include some al-Qaeda leaders whom the United States has hunted for their suspected roles in the attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998...>''

at every turn our current military leadership Fails US.

they allowed the political leadership to guide them by their greedy noses, they are unable to admit that don't have the mental agility that it takes to wage the kind of war that al qaida has seduced us into.

we are in TROUBLE here folks -- there is some seriously bad hand writing on the wall.

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2. Simply disgusting

War on Terror? My ass - it's more like a "War on Muslims". There is NO due process whatsoever, no oversight at all. We're supposed to take their word that these people are "Al Qaeda" terrorists?