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November 30, 2017

Report: U.S. Sought Cover-Up After Special Forces Killed Somali Civilians
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In Somalia, an investigation by the website The Daily Beast provides new
details on how U.S. Special Forces and Somali troops carried out a raid
last August in which 10 people were shot dead-including three
children-in a village near the capital Mogadishu. The investigation
found that U.S. soldiers fired on unarmed civilians, relied on shoddy
intelligence and ordered their Somali counterparts to plant weapons by
the bodies of the unarmed civilians they had just killed. The Daily
Beast also reports that U.S. diplomats pressured Somalia's government to
bury the findings of its investigation into the killings.


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