US drone strike kills Somali terror chief responsible for Westgate Mall massacre

US drone strike is believed to have killed 37-year-old Ahmed Abde Godane, the leader of al-Shabaab terror group nzherald.co.nz. This Somali Islamist leader had ordered last year's Westgate shopping Centre massacre in Kenya in which 67 persons were killed. Ahmed Abde Godane had, reportedly, been targeted by a salvo of missiles as he left a meeting of the group's senior leaders and the Pentagon is trying to confirm whether he had really died. As per witnesses, there was a sound like that of an earthquake as missiles hit a forested region in Somalia's Sablale district, 170-Km south of Mogadishu. A spokesman of al-Shabaab has revealed that Godane was in one of two vehicles that was hit in the attack in which six fighters were also killed, but declined to say if he was among the dead. Godane had, at one time, appeared in an al-Shabaab video in which he was shown pledging his allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Godane also gave his backing to last September's Westgate mall massacre in which 67 people were killed when gunmen stormed the Shopping Centre in Nairobi. Godane, who also went by the name Abu Zubayr, was listed by the US State Department as one of the world's most-wanted terrorist fugitives – he had a price of $8.4 million bounty on his head.