President Donald Trump announced that U.S. military forces have successfully conducted precision airstrikes targeting a senior ISIS attack planner and other operatives hiding in Somalia.
The airstrikes, carried out in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, mark a major success in the U.S. counterterrorism mission in the region.
“This morning, I ordered precision military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” Trump said in a statement.
“These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies.”
According to the U.S. Africa Command, the strikes eliminated multiple ISIS-Somalia operatives and left no civilian casualties. “Protecting civilians remains a vital part of the command’s operations to promote a more secure and stable Africa,” the military’s statement noted.
President Trump highlighted the significance of the strike, taking aim at the previous administration’s approach. “Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!”
Trump warned terrorist groups with a powerful message: “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”
U.S. Africa Command confirmed that the operation was part of ongoing efforts to eliminate terror threats and strengthen regional security. The strikes, which destroyed caves serving as terrorist hideouts, are expected to disrupt ISIS planning in the region.
I do find the shift in views around extra judicial killings, specifically for terrorist very very interesting.
The attack on the twin trade towers created a massive shift, but most interestingly it was most liberal US president that actually embedded the acceptance of mass extrajudicial killings. President Obama, what is profoundly interesting is that in 2012 he campaigned against the excess of the bush administration and promised the return of the rule of law…saying he…
“will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.”
What instead happened was Obama levered the US advantage in Drone and ISTAR and rightly or wrongly overturned the international norm on extrajudicial killings
“the president has routinized and normalized extrajudicial killing from the Oval Office, taking advantage of America’s temporary advantage in drone technology to wage a series of shadow wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Without the scrutiny of the legislature and the courts, and outside the public eye, Obama is authorizing murder on a weekly basis, with a discussion of the guilt or innocence of candidates for the “kill list” being resolved in secret on “Terror Tuesday” teleconferences with administration officials and intelligence officials.”
“Those strikes – by the United States’ own admission – are powered and driven by data. As former Director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, told an audience at John Hopkins University in 2014: “We kill people based on metadata.”
Essentially the western world now accepts mass extrajudicial killings as part of doing the business of essentially a forever war on terror. With HMG very much supporting these killings.
While at the same time condemning wider extrajudicial killings.
Only about 20 years before the HMG had essentially torn itself apart over the potential of the extrajudicial killings of three IRA terrorists in Operation Flavius…
Just to be very clear I’m not making any moral judgments here just pointing out the massively developing cultural shift in the west.
No issues from me, another quick and effective action by the orange man! He is certainly showing how easy it is to change the perceived establishment rules, rules which we are told are virtually impossible to change! Like him or hate him, old Trump talks and the world listens!
Let’s see how his 25% tariffs on Canadian oil go tomorrow, I don’t think the Donald understands chemistry.
It’s 10% not 25%. Facts matter.
There’s got to be some blatant signalling to certain “others” here too that his six shooter is in his holster and he’s going to use it!
On a more serious note, I think his hair colour is a less orange now, a more grey yellow, but i like your “orange man” tag!
I bet if Biden had done something similar Trump and MAGA would have accused him of trying to start another war, sticking Smerica’s nose in where it’s none of its business.
But hey Ho, a few more Deceased ISIS is never a bad thing.