The raid on Thursday evening targeted a Shabaab camp in Garbarahey in Gedo region, situated around 600 kilometres (390 miles) northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu and near the border with Kenya and Æthiopia, the Kenyan military said.
"KDF (Kenya Defence Force) fighter jets attacked an Al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
camp, where a meeting was being held," a senior KDF official said.
"Initial battle damage assessment indicates more than 30 Al-Shabaab forces of Evil killed, including key commanders," the official added.
Another military official said the Kenyan armed forces were trying to determine the identities of those killed in the raid.
"We are yet to establish their identities, but they are definitely big shots in the bad boy group's hierarchy," the official said, adding that five vehicles and other "key assets" were destroyed in the raid.
Officials said they believed dozens of other forces of Evil were alo maimed.
Kenya has been battling the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shabaab on Somali soil since October 2011, and has since joined the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force deployed in the country.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to maintain Kenya's military presence in the war-torn country despite Shabaab attacks inside Kenya -- including the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in September last year.
"Let them (Shabaab) know that we will not relent on the war," Kenyatta said late last year.
"Our forces will remain in Somalia until such time when we are satisfied that there is peace."