U.S. Tries to Take Out Terrorist in Somalia
January 27, 2014The United States military carried out a missile strike in southern Somalia on Sunday to target a senior figure in the Al-Shabaab terrorist group who had ties to Al-Qaeda, a senior defense official confirmed to Fox News.
It was unclear if the raid, in which witnesses said a vehicle was struck, was successful.
“We’ll know more tomorrow,” the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Fox News.
The Associated Press (AP), citing a member of Al-Shabaab, reported that Sahal Iskudhuq, a member of the Somali rebel group, was killed in the strike, along with his driver.
Last October, a U.S. military strike hit a vehicle carrying senior members of the group, killing its top explosives expert.
Earlier that month, U.S. Navy SEALs raided a coastal Somali town to take down a Kenyan Al Shabaab member.
The SEALs withdrew before capturing or killing their target — Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulkadir, known as Ikrima — who was identified as the lead planner of a plot by Al-Shabaab to attack Kenya’s parliament building and the United Nations office in capital, Nairobi, in 2011 and 2012.
Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for a deadly attack at a Nairobi shopping mall in September. Kenya has faced multiple attacks by Al-Shabaab terrorists, who want the country’s military to leave Somalia.
Following the attack in Nairobi, Al-Shabaab warned that it planned to target Britain next.
A hate preacher wanted for recruiting terrorists to the group said terrorists are planning to murder innocent Britons on their mission to impose Islamic Sharia law across the world.
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