US drone strike kills at least 150 al-Shebab militants near Mogadishu

The Pentagon has revealed that US drone strike on an al-Shebab training camp in Somalia has killed more than 150 fighters who were planning a "large-scale" attack. The training camp called Raso is located some 195-Km north of Mogadishu.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 8 March 2016.

The fighters were apparently undergoing training in the camp for a large-scale attack and, hence, posed an imminent threat to US and (African Union) forces. As per initial assessments more than 150 terrorist fighters have been eliminated in the strike. The spokesman did not elaborate on the "offensive operations" that the fighters were allegedly planning.
It is felt that such preemptive actions would degrade al-Shebab's ability to meet the group's objectives in Somalia. This is, namely, recruiting new members, establishing bases and planning attacks on US and AMISON (African Union Mission to Somalia) forces.
Incidentally, the training camp had been under surveillance for quite some time ahead of the drone strike. Al-Qaeda aligned al-Shebab jihadists have already claimed responsibility for a number of attacks in recent times including a twin bombing at a busy restaurant in the Somali city of Baidoa last month.


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