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December 30, 2014

Somalia: U.S. Targets Al-Shabab Leader with Drone Strike 
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The U.S. military has carried out a drone strike in Somalia targeting a
senior leader of the militant group al-Shabab. The Pentagon has said it
does not believe any civilians were killed in the strike, but did not
say whether the target was killed. Last week, on Christmas, al-Shabab
attacked the African Union base in Mogadishu, killing nine people in
what it said was retaliation for another U.S. drone strike which killed
the group's leader in September. On Saturday, another top al-Shabab
figure who was the subject of a $3 million U.S. bounty surrendered to
authorities in Somalia.