Top al-Shabab member suspected to have been killed in US strike
A US assassination drone strike in Somalia may have killed a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab militant group who is believed to have planned a deadly mall attack in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in 2013.
Kenyan and US officials said on Thursday that Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have been killed in a drone attack on their vehicle near the town of Bardhere in the Gedo region.
Garar is also suspected of having planned failed attacks on Kenya’s coast and in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, last year.
In September 2013, the Westgate Mall in the Kenyan capital was attacked and around 70 people died in a four-day standoff at the site.
Al-Shabab militants claimed responsibility for the attack and warned the Kenyan government to withdraw its troops – who have been deployed to Somalia to fight al-Shabab – from the country.
Washington has been carrying out assassination attacks using unmanned aircraft in several countries, including Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, and Yemen.
The United States claims the CIA-run strikes target militants. But witness reports and figures offered by local authorities indicate the attacks have led to massive civilian deaths.
Somalia has been the scene of deadly clashes between government forces and al-Shabab militants since 2006.
The militants have been pushed out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and other major cities in the country by government forces and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), which is largely made up of troops from Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
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