MOGADISHU, Somalia - The U.S. launched at least two airstrikes on different locations against terror targets in Somalia, an official and witnesses said Tuesday.
A U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked suspected al-Qaida terrorists near Ras Kamboni in southern Somalia, the Somali Defense Minister said.
Earlier an eyewitness told The Associated Press that a gunship hit targets near Afmadow, 155 miles north of Ras Kamboni.
"The strike took place in Ras Kamboni," Defense Minister, Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire told the AP.
In Afmadow, one eyewitness said his child died in an attack.
"My 4-year-old boy was killed in the strike," Mohamed Mahmud Burale told the AP by telephone from the outskirts of Afmadow.
Somalia's president said that the U.S. was right to launch airstrikes. "The U.S. has a right to bombard terrorist suspects who attacked its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania," President Abdullahi Yusuf told journalists in the capital, Mogadishu.
Meanwhile the U.S. military said Tuesday it had sent an aircraft carrier to join three other U.S. warships conducting anti-terror operations off the Somali coast.
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