The US troops had launched an airstrike targeting the Al Shabab terror leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked group in Somalia on Monday. The militant group was said to be behind the Kenya mall massacre.
The Pentagon had reported that the US airstrike might have killed the despicable terror leader of the Al-Qaeda-linked group Al Shabab and caused a major blow to the Somali terrorist network.
The Defense Department's Chief spokesperson, Rear Admiral John Kirby reportedly stated that the group's terror leader Ahmed Abdi Godane who was also known as Muktar Abu Zubeyr, was the prime target of the assault that have been launched by US drones and other aircraft. He also told the reporters that the operation was a direct strike against the Al Shabab network and their terror leader.
The US Defense Department is still evaluating the outcomes of the operation. The reports are not yet clear if the terror ringleader survived the lethal assault. An Al Shabab spokesman told The Associated Press that terror leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was at the site but never confirmed if he died or survived.
During the Monday's airstrike, Hellfire missiles ruined an alleged Al Shabab compound and one vehicle nears the port city of Barawe, a throttlehold of the group. The assault killed at least six member of the terrorist association that wanted to enforce Sharia law in Somalia - a country left virtually lawless by decades of war and clan-based hostility.
The US State Department had offered a $7 million reward on Ahmed Abdi Godane, who led the terrorist group as it sworn adherence to Al Qaeda and claimed accountability on the upscale Westgate Mall siege in Nairobi last year that killed at least 67 people and injured 200. He is considered as one of the world's most wanted men.
Kenya had sent troops into Somalia to combat the group triggering Al Shabab's pledge for retaliation. Terrorism specialists say that Ahmed Abdi Godane is an expert orator and poetry reader known for his expressly ruthless acts against enemies and internal rivals. They believed the terror leader's consolidated power come from killings or expelling adversaries. The New York Times had also reported that Al Shabab's terror leader had organized stoning of teenage girls and public amputations and was fabled to have participated in Somalia's Western aid workers' murder and have masterminded schemes to target US personnel in East Africa.
The US executives said that the terror leader's death would significantly weaken and could prompt power struggle in the organization. The US assault is the latest in the series of airstrikes on Al Shabab in recent years, most hurled from a large US drone base in Djinouti on Somalia's border.
The US government remains optimistic in the evaluation of the assault that targeted and could have killed the brutal terror leader Ahmed Abdi Godane of the Al-Qaeda-linked group, Al Shabab.
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