In Somalia, several dozen residents of Dobley town, near the Kenyan border, are reportedly trying to cross into Kenya following a U.S. military air strike that was aimed at terror suspects in the area.

據報導，肯尼亞邊境附近的索馬里城鎮多波雷的數十名居民試圖進入肯尼亞，此前美國軍方對該地區實施了針對恐怖嫌疑分子的空襲。

Eyewitness Abdi Mohamed Ali tells VOA that the residents of Dobley, about six kilometers from the Kenyan border, were shaken from their beds early Monday by a huge explosion that flattened a house in the middle of town.

目擊者阿里告訴美國之音，星期一清晨，距離肯尼亞邊界大約6公里的多波雷鎮中部的一座房屋被巨大的爆炸摧毀，居民被從床上震到地上。

Ali says he does not know who was in the house or who carried out the attack, but he says residents believe it was a bomb dropped by a plane, seen flying over the town in recent days. He says many people are leaving Dobley for fear of another air strike.

阿里說，他不知道房屋內有什么人，也不知道誰發動了襲擊，但是他說，居民們認為是飛機上扔下一枚炸彈，人們看到這架飛機最近在城鎮上空盤旋。許多人擔心會發生另外的空襲，正在離開多波雷。

In Washington, U.S. officials have confirmed that two missiles were launched at targets in Dobley. They say the targets were known Islamic terrorists, but have declined to give further details.

在華盛頓，美國官員已經證實，美國針對多波雷的目標發射了兩枚火箭。美國說，據信伊斯蘭恐怖分子是攻擊的目標，但是沒有提供具體的細節。

In an interview with Agence France-Presse news agency, local Somali elders and a senior leader of the al-Qaida-linked Somali al-Shabaab group, Muktar Robow, claimed a U.S. Air Force AC-130 plane, hunting for Islamic militant hideouts, bombed three targets, including two houses.

索馬里的地方長老們和基地組織索馬里分部的高層領導人羅布烏在接受法新社的采訪時聲稱，空軍AC-130型飛機尋找伊斯蘭激進分子的藏身處，飛機轟炸了3處目標，其中包括2座房屋。

VOA was not able to verify a local elder's statement that four civilians were killed in the attack.

一名地方長老說，空襲造成4名平民死亡，美國之音無法證實他的話。

The radical Shabaab group, which had largely self-dissolved following Ethiopia's December, 2006 military campaign to remove Somali Islamists from power, is believed to have reconstituted its fighting force during the past year. It has fully adopted Iraq-style guerrilla tactics to lead a bloody, year-long insurgency in Mogadishu and in other parts of the country against Ethiopian forces, the transitional government, and African Union peacekeepers.

2006年12月埃塞俄比亞的軍事行動把索馬里的伊斯蘭分子趕下臺之后，激進的基地組織索馬里分部基本已經自行解散。據信該組織在去年重新組建了戰斗部隊。他們完全采用伊拉克游擊隊的策略，在摩加迪沙和索馬里的其他地區進行血腥和長年的暴亂行動，襲擊埃塞俄比亞軍隊、過渡政府和非洲聯盟維和人員。

The Shabaab functioned as the militant wing of the ousted Islamic Courts Union, whose top leaders are in exile in Eritrea. But in early February, the Shabaab broke off ties with the courts, complaining that its leadership was not committed to establishing Islamic rule throughout the world through jihad.

基地組織在索馬里的分部是被推翻的伊斯蘭法庭聯盟的戰斗力量，伊斯蘭法庭聯盟的領導人流亡在厄立特里亞。但是在2月初，基地組織的分支切斷了同伊斯蘭法庭聯盟的關系，批評伊斯蘭法庭聯盟的領導力量不致力于通過圣戰在全世界建立伊斯蘭律法。

Late last month, a skirmish between supporters of the Islamic Courts Union and Shabaab fighters reportedly killed several people in Dobley before the town was seized by forces loyal to Hassan Turki, a Shabaab leader in the Lower Juba area.

據報導，上個月底，在基地組織索馬里分部的支持者和朱巴南部的領導人特基的部隊占領多波雷之前，伊斯蘭法庭聯盟和基地組織索馬里的分部在多波雷地區發生沖突，造成數人死亡。