Somali source: U.S. attack killed 2 high-level Al-Shabaab figures, Two top Al-Shabaab abstracts were a allotment of the array dead in a U.S. advance Saturday in Somalia, a chief Somali intelligence antecedent said.
The antecedent articular the collapsed Al-Shabaab leaders as Yusuf Ali Ugas, a bounded commander, recruiter and affecting preacher, and Mohamed Mire, Al-Shabaab's governor for Somalia's Hiran arena and a key affiliate of the group's accounts wing.
The brace were a allotment of as abounding 150 associates that the Pentagon said had been dead Saturday in an operation 120 afar arctic of Mogadishu at a training website alleged "Raso Camp," according to Pentagon agent Capt. Jeff Davis.
The Pentagon said Monday the advance -- initially declared as a bombinate strike, but after antiseptic to affection both manned and unmanned aircraft -- was agitated out to bulwark off an approaching blackmail adjoin U.S. troops and African peacekeeping armament in Somalia.
There was no actual Al-Shabaab acknowledgment to the affirmation that Ugas and Mire had been killed.
But the agitator accumulation did abnegate the Pentagon's added accepted address about accumulation Al-Shabaab casualties on its Twitter account.
"Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahideen denies the claims of killing 150 fighters in contempo airstrike, as was appear by the Pentagon," the accumulation said.
U.S. history of allowance Somali military
Al-Shabaab began aiming to about-face Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamist state. But it has aback broadcast its approach and ability by inflicting alarm about East Africa, as apparent in endure year's annihilation at Kenya's Garissa University College and a baleful 2013 annoy of Nairobi's flush Westgate Mall.
The al Qaeda-linked group's abomination and appetite has prompted crackdowns from governments about the arena as able-bodied as their allies, like the United States.
The U.S. military's captivation has consisted of abundant bombinate strikes. Armament accept been on the arena as well, such as if U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six conducted a 2013 arrest to abduction doubtable Al-Shabaab baton Ikrima alone to cull out already it became bright he couldn't be taken alive, a chief U.S. official told CNN at the time.
In animadversion about this weekend's raid, Pentagon admiral did not specify the area of area the United States anticipation an advance ability happen. But it is able-bodied accepted that the U.S. has a bound aggressive attendance at the airport in Mogadishu and that baby numbers of U.S. Special Operations armament accept catholic to added locations in the country.
These efforts are in abutment of Somalia's government, which is no drifter to agitator attacks and has fought aback militarily adjoin Al-Shabaab for years.
To this point, Awdhegle boondocks official Mohamed Aways said on radio that arena troops and airstrikes dead added than 20 doubtable Al-Shabaab fighters brief in his allotment of southern Somalia, accompaniment account appear Wednesday.
Aways said the burden of the advance -- involving three warplanes and "infantry"-- lasted about 30 minutes, according to the state-run Somali National Account Agency.
Awdhegle is amid about 40 afar (65 kilometers) west of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
The antecedent articular the collapsed Al-Shabaab leaders as Yusuf Ali Ugas, a bounded commander, recruiter and affecting preacher, and Mohamed Mire, Al-Shabaab's governor for Somalia's Hiran arena and a key affiliate of the group's accounts wing.
The brace were a allotment of as abounding 150 associates that the Pentagon said had been dead Saturday in an operation 120 afar arctic of Mogadishu at a training website alleged "Raso Camp," according to Pentagon agent Capt. Jeff Davis.
The Pentagon said Monday the advance -- initially declared as a bombinate strike, but after antiseptic to affection both manned and unmanned aircraft -- was agitated out to bulwark off an approaching blackmail adjoin U.S. troops and African peacekeeping armament in Somalia.
There was no actual Al-Shabaab acknowledgment to the affirmation that Ugas and Mire had been killed.
But the agitator accumulation did abnegate the Pentagon's added accepted address about accumulation Al-Shabaab casualties on its Twitter account.
"Harakat Al Shabaab Al Mujahideen denies the claims of killing 150 fighters in contempo airstrike, as was appear by the Pentagon," the accumulation said.
U.S. history of allowance Somali military
Al-Shabaab began aiming to about-face Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamist state. But it has aback broadcast its approach and ability by inflicting alarm about East Africa, as apparent in endure year's annihilation at Kenya's Garissa University College and a baleful 2013 annoy of Nairobi's flush Westgate Mall.
The al Qaeda-linked group's abomination and appetite has prompted crackdowns from governments about the arena as able-bodied as their allies, like the United States.
The U.S. military's captivation has consisted of abundant bombinate strikes. Armament accept been on the arena as well, such as if U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six conducted a 2013 arrest to abduction doubtable Al-Shabaab baton Ikrima alone to cull out already it became bright he couldn't be taken alive, a chief U.S. official told CNN at the time.
In animadversion about this weekend's raid, Pentagon admiral did not specify the area of area the United States anticipation an advance ability happen. But it is able-bodied accepted that the U.S. has a bound aggressive attendance at the airport in Mogadishu and that baby numbers of U.S. Special Operations armament accept catholic to added locations in the country.
These efforts are in abutment of Somalia's government, which is no drifter to agitator attacks and has fought aback militarily adjoin Al-Shabaab for years.
To this point, Awdhegle boondocks official Mohamed Aways said on radio that arena troops and airstrikes dead added than 20 doubtable Al-Shabaab fighters brief in his allotment of southern Somalia, accompaniment account appear Wednesday.
Aways said the burden of the advance -- involving three warplanes and "infantry"-- lasted about 30 minutes, according to the state-run Somali National Account Agency.
Awdhegle is amid about 40 afar (65 kilometers) west of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
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