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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Kenyan fighter jets pounded the outskirts of Burdhubo town, located 60 kilometers (37 miles) southwest of Bardhere town in the Gedo region, late on Wednesday.
At least 30 al-Shabab fighters sustained injuries in the attacks.
“The jets hit al-Shabab positions in the town and thirty fighters are confirmed wounded,” Ahmed Hirse, a government spokesman in Gedo region, said.
Kenya has beefed up security along its border with Somalia since it dispatched soldiers over its border into the conflict-plagued country last October to pursue al-Shabab militants, which it accuses of being behind the kidnapping of several foreigners on its territory. Al-Shabab has denied involvement.
Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed has said his transitional government is opposed to Kenya’s military incursion into Somalia.
There are indications that the United States and France are aiding the Kenyan operation.
Somalia has been without an effective central government and descended into chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
The weak Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab fighters for the past five years, and is propped up by a 12,000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti.
Somalia is one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world.
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