The drone identified the vehicle south of Somalia, launching three Hellfire missiles against it. Confirmation comes from the Pentagon.
The drone, which flew over the area for a few minutes after the attack, identified the terrorist's body. The latter did not die instantly, but died from his injuries.
Garar is the mind of the massacre that took place at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, the 21 September of the 2013.
According to local media reports, many of the 67 hostages killed by terrorists were slaughtered because they could not answer some questions asked about the Koran. 200 people were also injured. The group, which claimed the attack, defined the attack as a response to the Kenyan government's decision to send troops to Somalia to fight the fundamentalists.
Last February, Al-Shabaab's media branch released a video, urging attacks on shopping malls in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The Al-Shabaab group (with stronghold near the city of Chisimaio) has been fighting with the central government from 2006 to impose an Islamic state in Somalia.
The country is without an effective government since the overthrow of the Revolutionary Socialist Party that occurred in the 1991. The recognized federal government controls only the capital Mogadishu and part of central Somalia. The other areas of the country are in the hands of the various warlords.
The leader of Al-Shabaab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed in an attack that took place last September. The elimination was confirmed as well as that of another leader known only as Abdishakur, which took place last December.
Ahmed Abdi Godane Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed on September 5 last year along with eleven other militiamen. Among these were another high-profile figure, a financial officer and a military strategist. Two Hunter Killers were sent against the convoy, launching nine Hellfire missiles and a guided bomb.
The United States, in the 2012, put a bounty of seven million dollars on the head of the emir Ahmed Abdi Godane. Godane became al-Shabab's number one after the elimination of his predecessor, killed in an American air raid on the 2008. The current leader of Al-Shabaab is Ubeyda Ahmed Omar who, at the time of his inauguration, promised retaliatory attacks in Mogadishu.
The Jihad will not stop with the death of Godane - they wrote in a press release from the terrorist organization - our enemy will experience great anguish.
The way in which the Al-Shabaab group is accessed is also curious. Future terrorists must first pass a basic six-week course before being sent for advanced training in guerrilla and explosive tactics in one of the many training camps (financed by Somali pirates) in Eritrea.
Franco Iacch
(photo: General Atomics)
