WASHINGTON: A US drone strike in Somalia has targeted a key leader of the al-Shabab militant group who was involved in two attacks in Mogadishu more than a year ago that killed more than 30 people, at least three Americans among them, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Several US officials said he and two others were killed.
Hassan Ali Dhoore was targeted in the airstrike on Thursday, but the US military was still assessing the results, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said. Other US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it occurred about 30 km south of Jilib in southern Somalia not far from the Kenya border, killing Dhoore and two others.
Cook said Dhoore helped facilitate a deadly Christmas Day 2014 attack at Mogadishu international airport and a March 2015 attack at the Maka al-Mukarramah Hotel.
AP
