By Nick Simeone
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2015 – U.S. military forces have
conducted what a Pentagon spokesman described as a counterterrorism operation
in Somalia against a suspected member of the al-Shabab militant group.
Army Col. Steve Warren told reporters today the operation
was carried out yesterday in an area of the East African country on a road
south of the capital, Mogadishu, and said results are still being assessed.
Warren described the target as high value but would not say what assets were
involved, only that the operation involved “no boots on the ground.”
The U.S. strike against the Islamic network would be at
least the second since December, when the U.S. military reported that an
unmanned airstrike killed the chief of the group’s intelligence and security
wing.
Among other attacks in East Africa, al-Shabab has been
blamed for a massacre at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed nearly
70 people in 2013.
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