With a targeted airstrike in Somalia, the United States killed one of the leaders of the militant Islamic group al-ShabaabAbdullahi Nadir.
The undercover operation was put into effect last Saturday and was announced by the Pentagon only today after the fact.
In the last few hours, it was the Somali government itself that revealed the facts when talking about joint action with the US to achieve the co-founder of the Islamist group, linked to al-Qaeda and responsible for hundreds of bloody attacks at home and abroad.
Abdullahi Nadir he was reportedly hit by the airstrike in the southern region of Middle Juba after ground people attacked him.
According to Somali sources, the attack took place with drones near the coastal town of Haramka. The US Africa Command said it carried out the air strike near Jilib, about 370 kilometers southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
According to reports from the African country’s Ministry of Information, one had been placed in Nadir three million dollar reward.
The man was in fact the head of Al Shabaab’s religious propaganda unit, but he was also in the front row to replace the group’s leader, Ahmed Diriye, who had been ill for some time.
Nadir’s death “is a thorn in the side of the Somali nation,” the Somali Information Ministry said, adding: “The government thanks the Somali people and international friends whose cooperation facilitated the death of this leader who was an enemy of the Somali nation. “.
No comments came from al-Shabaab, but only bombs. In fact, Monday morning two car bombs exploded in the town of Beledweyne, killing at least 20 people and injuring many more. Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as two other attacks on Friday, in which at least 16 people were killed.
US forces are increasingly collaborating with African Union soldiers and Somali troops in counter-terrorism operations and have carried out frequent attacks and drone attacks at Al-Shabaab training camps across Somalia. In late September, a US airstrike in Somalia killed 27 Al-Shabaab members.
Somali’s newly elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has vowed to organize an all-out war against the extremists after US President Joe Biden approved the redeployment of US troops in the African country.
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