From Reuters:
U.S. confirms drone strike killed al Shabaab leader in Somalia
An unmanned U.S. aircraft that unleashed Hellfire missiles at a vehicle in Somalia earlier this week killed a leader of the al Shabaab militant group, dealing a setback to its ability to carry out anti-government attacks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a note on Twitter the department could now "confirm that Tahliil Abdishakur, chief of al Shabaab's intelligence and security wing, was killed in a U.S. air strike in Somalia on 29 December."
The Pentagon said in a statement that Abdishakur was responsible for the group's external operations and "his death will significantly impact al Shabaab's ability to conduct attacks against the government of the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Somali people and U.S. allies and interests."...MORE
Abdishakur was one of the guys behind the recent murders in Kenya and was the plotter of the massacre at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall in 2013.
Haji was one of the heroes of Westgate, a civilian charging into the mall with a ridiculously small handgun against the terrorist's automatic rifles and explosives.
He is credited with helping to save a few dozen people.
As we've noted a couple times, bummer for Abdishakur about the misreading of the 72 virgins thing:
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