Somali missile strike

Has the body been identified. The US military did confirm that it carried out a pre-dawn missile strike which killed a senior leader of an Islamist militant group in Somalia. The target of the attack in the town of Dusamareb was an al-Qaeda leader, but they would not name him or say whether the attack was successful. The strike hit the home of Aden Hashi Ayro, the military head of al-Shabab, which controls much of Somali. Ayro was never seen at a public gathering and avoided interviews. "It was an attack. If we say too much then we give away platforms and things that we use," CentCom spokesman Bob Prucha told the Associated Press. "This incident will cause a lot problems to US interests in the region and the governments who support the US, by that I mean its allies who are puppets" Mukhtar Robow Adumansur Al-Shabab spokesman An al-Shabab spokesman, Mukhtar Robow Adumansur, told the BBC that Ayro was killed along with another senior leader, Muhiyadin Muhammad Umar. The US has said al-Shabab is part of the al-Qaeda network, although analysts say it is impossible to accurately establish those links. Al-Shabab's leaders insist it is a purely Somali movement. Ayro, its military commander, received training in Afghanistan in the 1990s and was an instrumental military figure as the UIC took control of Mogadishu. Ayro was considered by fellow militants as a soldier rather than a politician. He never addressed a rally, was never seen at a public gathering and did not like to give interviews either. His name came into the public domain few years ago when a group of Somali warlords co-operating with Western intelligence agencies stormed his house in the capital. Two men were kidnapped from the house, but Ayro escaped unhurt. He also escaped a US air strike near the southern port of Kismayo a year ago with only a minor injury. Yes, he did escape that air srike, however, some of this information does not add up. My sources told me he did escape but with the help of what appeared to be rather wealthy business men and the other person that escaped with him took off for Pakistan.