Somalia: US general says evidence of al-Qaeda

General Tommy Franks, head of the US Central Command, continued his tour of Horn of Africa countries with visits to Ethiopia and Djibouti at the weekend. "We have known of links to al-Qaeda [terrorist network] in and through Somalia for a considerable period of time," he said. He added that he could not go into specifics, but the US "will not take off the table the possibility of action against countries of concern".