HARGEISA (Somalia): US Marines landed on Somalia’s coast on Thursday in one of their most visible hunts for militants in the country since they set up a Horn of Africa counter-terrorism force in 2002. Two boats brought about 20 lightly armed Marines to the fishing village of Maydh in the northwestern enclave of Somaliland, where they showed pictures of suspected ‘terrorists’ to locals before leaving, residents said.
“They met some of the fishermen and the people and they showed some pictures they were carrying, saying that these people are terrorists that they are trying to capture,” Assistant District Commissioner Ali Abdi said.
It was not clear who the Marines were looking for. —Reuters
