By DemocracyRules
A key Islamist leader in Somalia has been killed. He was Aden Hashi Ayro.
The U.S. has confirmed the strike. The house of Ayro was destroyed. He was thought to be the leading Al Qaeda commander in Somalia.
Another senior leader, Muhiyadin Muhammad Umar, and about 10 others were also killed.
Ayro is thought to be responsible for the murders of 16 non-Somalians, including the BBC journalist Kate Peyton.
A spokesman for Ayro's gang said he didn't like it and it wasn't fair because they were not warned they were going to be bombed.
The death of Ayro reminds me of a passage by Sappho, the Greek poetess who lived on Lesbos, ca. 600 BC:
"Forever shalt thou lie dead, nor shall there be any remembrance of thee now or hereafter, for never has thou had any of the roses of Pieria; but thou shalt wander, eternally unregarded in the houses of Hades, flitting among the insubstantial shades."
Pro Patria
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