What the records say
- When
- 1 May 2008
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 5.54° N, 46.39° E
- Description
- 2008 military operation
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Dhusamareb airstrike
American airstrike in Somalia
The Dhusamareb airstrike took place on May 1, 2008, at around 3:00 am local time when an American plane dropped three large bombs on a house in the Dhuusamarreeb region in central Somalia. The attack was targeted against the Muslim militant group al-Shabaab.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Aden Hashi Farah "Eyrow", a leader of Al-Shabaab in Somalia, is reported as being killed in a U.S. airstrike”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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