A senior al-Shabab commander who masterminded a wave of suicide attacks by the armed group has been killed in a US missile strike, two Somali security officials said.
Both sources and a Somali government spokesman named the target as Ahmed Mohamed Amey, a chemicals expert also known as Isku Dhuuq, Reuters news agency reported.
The intelligence officials said Amey was killed alongside his driver on Sunday.
A US official said the missile strike occurred in a remote area near Barawe, a coastal rebel enclave that was the site of a failed raid by American commandos in October targeting a fighter known as Ikrima. It was not clear if the missile was launched from a drone.
US missile 'kills top al-Shabab commander' - Africa - Al Jazeera English
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