Africa Leader (ANI) Monday 14th January, 2013
US military combat aircraft "briefly entered" the airspace of Somalia on Friday in support of a French-led rescue mission, President Barack Obama has told the Congress in a letter.
On Friday, French troops mounted an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a French national reported to be a French intelligence service agent captured in Somalia in 2009. The agent, believed to be held by the Islamic group Al-Shabaab, was reportedly killed in the raid, as was a French soldier, reports Politico.
Obama's letter does not mention the result of the military action in the farming village of Bulomarer on the Somali coast and describes the U.S. involvement in the epsiode as minor.
Obama, in the letter, said US forces provided limited technical support to the French forces in that operation, but took no direct part in the assault on the compound where it was believed the French citizen was being held hostage.
He added that these aircraft did not employ weapons during the operation. The U.S. forces that supported this operation left Somalia by approximately 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 11, 2013, he further added.
Obama's letter said it was submitted "consistent with" the War Powers Resolution, the 1973 law imposing limits on the use of U.S. forces in combat situations abroad. Obama, like previous presidents, has not acknowledged the law's constitutionality. (ANI)
Source: http://www.africaleader.com/index.php/sid/211918356/scat/c1ab2109a5bf37ec
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