The Lunatics are Bombing the Asylum

A BBC report here describes at least two airborne attacks on Somalia from US A-130 Hercules gunships like the one above in shock and awe peace keeping TWAT mode before turning and disappearing happily into this beautiful sunset. With the world a safer place naturally.

Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf who is a 70 year old jailbird and warlord, presumably auditioning for a more permanent arrangement with the White House, backed the US action:
"The US has a right to bombard terrorist suspects who attacked its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania," (LoL emphasis) he claimed as he helped George W Bush push the dreary manila envelope of international law. Warlord Yusuf was speaking in Mogadishu, a day after entering the city for the first time since the Islamists withdrew.

The BBC states that more than 250 people died in the 1998 attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, for which al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility. And that the US holds the same cell responsible for attacks on an Israeli aircraft and an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya in 2002, in which 15 people died. There is a lovely video of these same aircraft blowing up some hills in Afghanistan. Presumably loaded with Patriot Missiles, Bunker Busters and Cluster Bombs made by anti-weapons campaigner Lib Dem Willie Rennie MP's friends at Raytheon, a corporation which in Willie's own words "enyoys such a good reputation in Fife and farther afield".

There are many reports of deaths of women and young children and other non combatants. The picture above right, which proved a little elusive at first, shows the interim President Yusuf in 2005 in a mutual Mugabe moment with a very interesting well-connected and legally-experienced fellow from the US of A. Celebrating a multi-million franchise deal. At least one of them was due to get rich as a result. More anon.