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US: Senior Al-Shabab Leader, Wife Behind Kenya's Manda Bay Attack Killed

Harun Maruf

   The U.S. military says a senior al-Shabab leader behind the deadly Jan.
   5 attack on the Manda Bay base in Kenya, was killed Feb. 22 in
   precision airstrikes, along with his wife.

   In a statement, the military says the targeted individuals were
   identified as members of al-Shabab. The statement did not name the
   senior al-Shabab leader killed in the strike, but it says he was in
   charge of planning and directing terrorist operations along the Kenya
   border region, including the Manda Bay attack.

   The statement says the senior leader's wife also was a "witting and
   active member of al-Shabab responsible for facilitating a wide range of
   terrorist activities."

   The only strike reported by the U.S. military Feb. 22 occurred in the
   vicinity of Saakow, an al-Shabab stronghold in the Middle Juba region.
   The United States reported that two al-Shabab individuals were killed
   in that strike.

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