President Donald Trump shared a video on Monday of U.S. military precision airstrikes against an ISIS “Attack Planner” and other terrorists in Somalia.
The video Trump shared Monday on X, formerly Twitter, shows unclassified footage of U.S. airstrikes that were conducted on Saturday against “ISIS targets” in Somalia.
In a Saturday post on social media, Trump tweeted, “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.”
Trump explained that the precision airstrikes “killed many terrorists” and “destroyed the caves they live in” without harming any 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!” Trump added. “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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Following Saturday’s airstrikes, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a statement confirming that the Pentagon had authorized U.S. Africa Command to execute “coordinated airstrikes” against “ISIS-Somalia operatives” located in the Golis mountains at the president’s direction and in coordination with Somalia’s government.
“Our initial assessment is that multiple operatives were killed in the airstrikes and no civilians were harmed,” Hegseth said. “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.”
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud also released a statement on X following the airstrikes. In his statement, Mohamud thanked the United States for its “unwavering support” in the “shared fight against terrorism.” Somali’s president noted that Trump’s “bold and decisive leadership” in counterterrorism is “highly valued and welcomed in Somalia.”
Mohamud added, “Terrorism will neither find friends, nor any place to call home, in Puntland state and entire Somalia.”
Fox News reported that Saturday’s airstrikes against ISIS and other terrorists in Somalia came just a month after an ISIS-inspired terrorist killed 14 individuals and injured dozens of other victims after crashing a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve.
