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Ras Kamboni (Somali: Raaskambooni) is a town in the Badhaadhe district of Lower ... the possible use of Ras Kamboni by Islamic terrorist groups, including ...
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March 18, 2006 incident - Ras Kamboni - June 3, 2007 incident - Bargal - October ... The Battle of Ras Kamboni was a battle in the 2006-2007 Somali War fought by the ...
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The Battle of Ras Kamboni - The Long War Journal
The Battle of Ras Kamboni. By Bill RoggioJanuary 8, 2007 3:09 PM ... About 600 Islamic Courts fighters are said to be holed up in Ras Kamboni. ...
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Engaging the Islamic Courts at Ras Kamboni - The Long War Journal
Engaging the Islamic Courts at Ras Kamboni. By Bill RoggioJanuary 4, 2007 4:49 PM ... Ras Kamboni, the al Qaeda and Islamic Courts training and communications hub, is ...
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Islamic hideout in Somalia said captured (Ras Kamboni)
The southern town of Ras Kamboni fell after five days of heavy fighting, Defense ... Ras Kamboni is in a rugged coastal area a few miles from the Kenyan border. ...
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Politics Central: America's Boots on the Ground in Somalia
Ras Kamboni is well fortified. ... communications between Ras Kamboni and al ... Yet the pleas from Ras Kamboni not only reached Zawahiri, but also quickly ...
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FRONTLINE/WORLD . Rough Cut . Somalia: A Reporter's Search for Al Qaeda ...
Exhausted and leery, we finally made it to Ras Kamboni. ... I met with Ras Kamboni's police chief, who went to great lengths to explain why ...
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allAfrica.com: Kenya: The Cost of Fighting Terrorists in Somalia
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience ... The attack on Ras Kamboni by the US is not accidental, as the US had set its ...
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Flawed Sheikhs and Failed Strategies: Lessons of the Jihadist Debacle ...
The Al-Ittihad logistics base at Ras Kamboni, a small dhow port on the coast of ... The Ras Kamboni base may have also been the entry point for some of the arms and ...
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( Last month, the region of Ras Kamboni in the south, where Mollard traveled, was ... And having the balls to go to Ras Kamboni, even if it's only to find out that ...
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Ras Kamboni (Somali language: Raaskambooni) is a town in the Badhaadhe district of Jubbada Hoose region, Somalia, which lies on a peninsula near the border with Kenya. American officials have said that it has served as a training camp for extremists with connections to Al-Qaeda; al-Sharq al-Awsat reported in May 1999 that al-Qaeda was installing sophisticated communications equipment in the camp.{{cite news]|date=2007-01-08|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/396gitqe.asp|title=Night Falls on Mogadishu|accessdate=2007-01-08-->

US security concerns in the [Horn of Africa, particularly at Ras Kamboni, heightened after the attacks on 9/11. On December 16, 2001, Paul Wolfowitz said the US was meeting with various Somali and Ethiopian contacts to "observe, survey possible escape routes, possible sanctuaries" for Al Qaeda operatives.{{cite news]| date=2001-12-16, [2002 a briefing was held in the Pentagon discussing the possible use of Ras Kamboni by Islamic terrorist groups, including al-Ittihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and Al Qaeda. Terrorist Threat in Horn of Africa US Department of State In December 2002, the US established the CJTF-HOA to monitor developments in the region and to train local militaries on counterterrorism. Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa globalsecurity.org

American officials believe that several terrorist attacks were orchestrated from Ras Kamboni, including the 1998 United States embassy bombings and the 2002 Mombasa hotel bombing.Abdi Abdi, " The Talibanisation of Somalia", Ethiopian News Agency, 12 July 2006

Battle of Ras Kamboni In the War in Somalia (2006–present), Islamic Courts Union fighters fled Ethiopian troops to Ras Kamboni, to make a last stand on the country's southernmost tip.Elizabeth A. Kennedy, "Somalia's Islamists vow to heed al-Qaida", Associated Press, 5 January 2007

On January 8, 2007, during the battle, it was reported an AC-130 gunship belonging to the United States military had attacked suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia. It was also reported that the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) had been moved into striking distance.{{cite news | title =U.S. targets al Qaeda suspects in Somalia, Pentagon official says | publisher =CNN | date =[2007-01-08 | url =http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/01/08/somalia.strike/index.html |accessdate = 2007-01-08 --> The aircraft flew out of its base in [Djibouti. Many bodies were spotted on the ground, but the identity of the dead or wounded was not yet established. The aid organization, [Oxfam, reported 100 nomads were killed. The targeted leaders were tracked by the use of [unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as they headed south from Mogadishu starting on [December 28.{{cite news |title=Reports say U.S. targeted al Qaeda suspects in Somalia|date=2007-01-09|url=http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?storyid=2007-01-09T010418Z_01_N08416210_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SOMALIA-QAEDA-REPORT.xml&type=worldNews&WTmodLoc=World-C3-More-6|accessdate=2007-01-09 -->

External links

• Ras Kamboni Satellite photo at Wikimapia

References

Ras Kamboni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ras Kamboni (Somali: Raaskambooni) is a town in the Badhaadhe district of Lower Juba region, Somalia, which lies on a peninsula near the border with Kenya.

Battle of Ras Kamboni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Ras Kamboni was a battle in the 2006-2007 Somali War fought by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and affiliated militias against Ethiopian and the Somali Transitional ...

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US launches air strikes at al-Qaida suspects | World news ...
Somali officials said at least 27 people were killed in the air strikes led by AC-130 gunships around Ras Kamboni. It was not clear whether any of the dead were al-Qaida operatives ...

Latest News - SomaliNet
We are hearing bombardment in Ras Kamboni. It started around 6 a.m. and the strike is now continuing," one resident said, asking not to be named for fear of retribution.

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Reuters AlertNet - Somali parliament declares state of emergency
Many fugitive Islamists were believed to be in the coastal village of Ras Kamboni near the Kenyan border after fleeing south. "Most of the wanted terrorists have either died or fled

Countdown to Kismayo - The Long War Journal
The Islamic Courts are massing in the south in Kismayo and Ras Kamboni; The Ethiopians are heading southward. As the Ethiopian and Transitional Federal Government continue to ...

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Last Somali Islamist base 'falls'
Col Barre Aden Shire said the town of Ras Kamboni, in south-eastern Somalia, fell after several days of fighting. Remnants of the militia are now reported to be hiding in dense ...

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