The United States has conducted “precision air strikes” against at least one member of ISIS leadership in Somalia, according to statements released on Saturday from both President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Like the president’s lightning-speed condolence message on Friday night about the Philadelphia plane crash, his announcement came via his X account.
This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in,…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 1, 2025
He wrote:
This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”
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At the time of this writing, information is scant on the name/names of who our forces targeted, though more might be known in the coming hours. Hegseth and the Pentagon also commented on the action Pres. Trump ordered in Somalia, confirming that the air strikes killed “multiple individuals,” while adding that “no civilians were harmed in the operation, which took place in the Golis mountains.”
The Pentagon released a statement, which read:
This action further degrades ISIS’s ability to plot and conduct terrorist attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians and sends a clear signal that the United States always stands ready to find and eliminate terrorists who threaten the United States and our allies, even as we conduct robust border-protection and many other operations under President Trump’s leadership.
This is a developing story. RedState will provide updates as more information becomes available.
