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Report: France aided Somalia al Shabaab leader assassination
Report: France aided Somalia al Shabaab leader assassination
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Somalia put on high alert after Shabaab leader confirmed dead
Less than one week after Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in an American airstrike, Shabaab has named a new leader and publicly reaffirmed its allegiance to al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri.
‘Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to al-Shabaab,” the Pentagon’s spokesman said. But jihadist groups have withstood the loss of top leaders in the past.
“Manned and unmanned aircraft destroyed an encampment and a vehicle” in southern Somalia, the Pentagon’s press secretary said in a briefing.
Shabaab emir Ahmed Abdi Godane and several senior leaders of the group are rumored to have been at a Shabaab camp when it was targeted by a US airstrike.
Shabaab was attempting to free prisoners held at the intelligence headquarters in the Somali capital.
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Although Shabaab claimed responsibility for two recent attacks in Kenyan coastal towns, the government blamed the attacks on “local political networks.”
The al Qaeda branch has officially opened a new front in the Horn of Africa.
Two Somalis, a man and a woman, detonated their bombs at a restaurant in Djibouti known to be frequented by Western troops.
The suicide assault, which killed 10 Somali troops, took place just two days after Shabaab vowed to step up attacks in Mogadishu.
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