ARTICLE: “U.S. Says Strike Kills Leader of a Somali Militia Suspected of Ties to Al Qaeda: A Blow to Islamists In the Horn of Africa,” by Eric Schmitt and Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 2 May 2008, p. A10.

SOCCENT (Special Operations Command, Central Command) finally nails Somali militia leader and Al Qaeda operative Aden Hashi Ayro. I had written about SOCCENT’s previous attempts to nail him in southern Somalia in the Esquire July 2007 article, “The Americans Have Landed.” He escaped that time, hurt, and soon popped up back in Mogadishu, allegedly after recouping a bit in Yemen.