(ANTIWAR.COM)
— Pentagon officials have confirmed that they carried out an airstrike
Sunday morning inside the country of Somalia, and that they were trying
to target the al-Shabaab insurgency, saying they were after “specific
militant targets.”
What they actually hit, however, isn’t at all clear, with no word yet
out of Somalia on the results of the strike, and the Pentagon insisting
that they are still “assessing the results,” and holding out the idea they might provide information in the future “as appropriate.”
In practice, however, the Pentagon has recently been very
tight-lipped about the results of airstrikes, especially those strikes
that didn’t go according to plan, meaning that “al-Shabaab was targeted”
may well be the last we ever hear about the incident.
