Did U.S. Attack Kill Al-Shabaab Leader by Tony R.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/world/africa/somalia-us-operation/index.html?c=world&page=0


The U.S. military invaded Somalia to kill Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of Al-Shabaab. A Pentagon spokesperson said, "We certainly believe that we hit what we were aiming at". Even though he said this, he didn't say whether Godane was dead. He did state that U.S. military aircraft did fly over Somalia and that they, "destroyed an encampment and a vehicle using several Hellfire missiles and laser-guided missiles". The U.S. has been searching for Godane for a while now. Al-Shabaab's most high-profile attack was last year, when terrorists walked into a shopping mall and pulled out weapons and killed many civilians.


I believe that the U.S. was successful in killing Godane even though they can't say whether or not they killed him. I think Somalia will be safer with the Al-Shabaab leader dead and hopefully Al-Shabaab will stop with their terrorists attacks.