U.S. Confirms Drone Strike Killed Al-Shabaab Leader In Somalia

U.S. Confirms Drone Strike Killed Al-Shabaab Leader In Somalia
A Somali soldier walks near wreckage at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack that targeted a United Nations convoy, outside the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a U.N. convoy near Mogadishu's airport, killing three people. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
A Somali soldier walks near wreckage at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack that targeted a United Nations convoy, outside the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a U.N. convoy near Mogadishu's airport, killing three people. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - An air strike by an unmanned U.S. aircraft over Somalia this week killed Tahliil Abdishakur, the chief of the al Shabaab militant group's intelligence and security wing, the Pentagon confirmed on Wednesday.

The strike, which took place on Monday near Saakow, Somalia, was carried out by U.S. forces working from "actionable intelligence," the department said in a statement. The unmanned aircraft fired several Hellfire missiles at a vehicle carrying Tahliil, it said.

(Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Eric Beech)

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