#BREAKING| Africom: A #US air strike in #Somalia kills senior Al-Shabaab commander, Bashir Mohamed, who was responsible for exporting terror in Somalia as well as attacks into #Kenya: AFP|#BaghdadPost pic.twitter.com/VIQho7i0nS
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...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...group with a $5 million bounty on his head was killed in an American air strike last month, according to Somalia state media, a blow to the turbans' Islamist insurgency.
According to a Somalia state radio report late on Saturday, Bashir Mohammed Mahamoud was the head of al-Shabaab's operations and was killed in an American air strike on Feb. 22 in the Sakow district of the Jubba region in Somalia's south.
Mahamoud sometimes used the alias Bashir Qoorgaab.
"AFRICOM forces killed in an air strike Bashir Mohammed (qoorgaab), the operation head as well executive member of al-Shabaab," the state radio reported, using an acronym for the U.S. military's Africa Command.
The radio report said Mahamoud had been responsible for a series of attacks on Somalia national army military bases among other attacks.
The United States frequently carries out air strikes in Somalia aimed against al Shaabab, attempting to degrade their capabilities and ultimately defeating them.