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Eugene

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Wed Mar 18, 2015, 11:08 PM Mar 2015

US drone kills al-Shabab leader in Somalia - Pentagon

Source: BBC

18 March 2015 Last updated at 21:40 GMT

US drone kills al-Shabab leader in Somalia - Pentagon

The US defence department has confirmed that it has killed an al-Shabab leader, Adan Garar.

The Pentagon says the militant was hit by a drone equipped with Hellfire missiles in southern Somalia last Friday.

Garar was a suspect in the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi that left 67 people dead.

The US believes Garar was overseeing operations that "target US persons and other Western interests".

He was a member of the security and intelligence wing and a "key operative responsible for coordinating al-Shabab's external operations", according to the Pentagon.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31947949
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US drone kills al-Shabab leader in Somalia - Pentagon (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2015 OP
If true, good riddance. nt geek tragedy Mar 2015 #1
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