"Official: U.S. airstrike in Somalia targets suspected militant leader"

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Official: U.S. airstrike in Somalia targets suspected militant leader

By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/26/world/africa/somalia-us-airstrike/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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(CNN) -- The U.S. military conducted an airstrike in southern Somalia on Sunday against a suspected militant leader, a U.S. military official told CNN.

The target was described by the official as a "senior leader" affiliated with al Qaeda and Al-Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia.

The United States has not yet been able to determine whether the target was killed, the official said.



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