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Gunning for Somalia

In the aftermath of the American bombing of Somalia last week, it has emerged that US forces have been running military operations in the east African nation since Christmas � if they ever left at all. Steve Bloomfield reports from Nairobi

The Americans called it a "surgical strike". No civilians were injured, they claimed, let alone killed. Eyewitnesses said that the bombing was "indiscriminate" and more than 30 people died.