Spc. Antonio Walton, 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, trys to console his 2-year-old son, Caleb Walton, as he tells him goodbye before he deploys to Iraq from Fort Stewart, Ga., on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. The 19,000-troop 3rd Infantry, which helped lead the 2003 charge to Baghdad, is the first Army division to be tapped for a third deployment to the war. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal Constitution, Curtis Compton)



US Attacks Somalia

The United States launched a raid on suspected members of international terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, who hid themselves in Somalia on January 9. The decisive air raid killed 27 people.

According to witnesses, the US military gathered combat helicopters at Afmadow town, 250 kilometers northwest of the nation’s capital city, Mogadishu, in the morning of January 9 and attacked the area more than two times. News was delivered from the site that 27 local people, including a newly wedded couple, were killed in the severe attack.

The US military mobilized war planes, from C-310 transport planes into attack air craft, to raid two areas south of Ras Kamboni, Somalia. After the nightmare of ‘Black Hawk Down’, this is the first time for the US to be directly involved as military forces since withdrawal of US troops from Somalia in 1993.

UN Secretary-General Bahn Ki Moon expressed his concern that the US attack on the southern region of Somalia would worsen the current political instability.
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