US Drone Strike Kills Top Al-Shabab Leader In Somalia

Somali policemen look at the wreckage of a car after a bombing in Mogadishu, March 9, 2016. A leader of the Islamist group al-Shabab was killed by a U.S. airstrike Thursday, March 31. PHOTO: REUTERS/FEISAL OMAR

Voice of America: US Drone Strike Kills Top Al-Shabab Assassin in Somalia

An attack by an unmanned U.S. aircraft in Somalia has killed a senior member of the al-Shabab militant group, a U.S. official with knowledge of the operation said Friday.

The victim of the U.S. drone attack, Hassan Ali Dhore, led a team of al-Shabab assassins, according to Somali officials. He was named by the Somali government last year on a "most-wanted" list of 12 al-Shabab members involved in terror attacks in Mogadishu.

At the Pentagon, press secretary Peter Cook confirmed the U.S. carried out the airstrike Thursday in cooperation with Somali forces. He said Dhore planned and led previous attacks that killed at least three U.S. citizens, and that he was suspected of plotting further attacks against Americans in the east African country.

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