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A US drone strike reportedly killed Abu Ubaidah<\/strong>, leader of al Shabaab, as well as four other fighters. The US told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: \u201cWe are aware of the media reports but have no information on the incident.\u201d However two named Somali officials asserted that it was a drone attack.<\/p>\n

Ubaidah replaced\u00a0Ahmed Abdi Godane<\/strong> when he was killed by US drones in September 2014.\u00a0The US put out a reward in November 2015 for up to $6m to anyone with information leading to the location of Ubaidah.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Airwars was not able to retrieve the original confirmation from Africom to BIJ, and must thus rely on paraphrasing BIJ’s earlier reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","country":[436],"belligerent":[430],"strike_type":[431,434],"cause_of_death":[448],"targeted_belligerents":[488],"strike_status":[832],"civilian_harm_reported":[835],"civilian_harm_status":[],"belligerent_assessment":[868],"geolocation_assessor":[],"declassified_document":[900],"geolocation_status":[920],"observation":[],"munition":[],"casualty":[],"impact":[],"documentation":[],"citation":[],"geolocation_observation":[],"protected_persons":[],"infrastructure":[],"infrastructure_affiliation":[],"infrastructure_declared_target":[],"infrastructure_destruction":[],"profession":[],"class_list":["post-53693","civ","type-civ","status-publish","hentry","country-somalia","belligerent-us-forces","strike_type-airstrike","strike_type-drone-strike","cause_of_death-heavy-weapons-and-explosive-munitions","targeted_belligerents-al-shabaab","strike_status-likely-strike","civilian_harm_reported-no","belligerent_assessment-not-yet-assessed","declassified_document-no","geolocation_status-unassigned"],"acf":{"latitude":1.218208,"longitude":43.360354,"geolocation_accuracy":"neighbourhood_area","multiple_location_incident":null,"geolocations":[{"latitude":1.218208,"longitude":43.360354,"geolocation_accuracy":"neighbourhood_area","primary_coordinate":true}],"geojson":null,"show_geolocation_caption":false,"geojson_caption":"","media_geolocation":[{"media_image":60219,"media_date_taken":null,"media_time_taken":"","media_resolution":"","media_source":"DIGGA Institute"}],"geolocation_notes":"Reports of the incident mention that the strike targeted an Al Shabaab base in an area called Shanta Ameriko, reportedly the location of a former American oil company. 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