Tuesday, September 02, 2014
US military "flying squad" makes a raid
And the target of the drone strike was Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of Al-Shabab. They managed to kill a half dozen people who are now listed as terrorists because they are dead.
A U.S. military drone strike in Somalia on Monday believed to have been targeting Ahmed Abdi Godane, leader of extremist group Al-Shabab, reportedly killed six people — none of which were Godane, the group told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.Al-Shabab says no, we missed. However they were stirred up like a kicked hornets nest and proceeded to abuse the locals who they thought might have snitched on them.
A representative of Al-Shabab confirmed to Al Jazeera that the group had come under attack by the U.S., but said its leader was not in the convoy targeted.
Intelligence sources told Reuters that an airstrike hit an area where Al-Shabab leaders were meeting. The Associated Press reported that six fighters were killed in the attack on two vehicles heading toward the coastal town of Barawe, Al-Shabab's main base.
A senior Somali intelligence official confirmed that a U.S. drone targeted Godane as he left a meeting of Al-Shabab’s top leaders. If successful, the strike would be seen as a major victory against the group, which is fighting to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.
Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr, is the group's spiritual leader under whose direction the Somali militants forged an alliance with Al-Qaeda.
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