Another US Military Intervention Posted: Thursday, January 11, 2007
When US-trained Ethiopian forces swept into Somalia to oust the Islamic Courts Union, they did so with the help of battlefield intelligence supplied by Uncle Sam (New York Times, December 26, 2007), with the US Fifth Fleet enforcing a naval blockade (New York Times, January 3, 2007), and with unconfirmed reports of US Marines deployed along Somalia's border with Kenya (Globe and Mail, January 6, 2007.) Not long after, US AC-130 gunships, operating out of Djibouti, struck targets within Somalia. Full Article : africaspeaks.com
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