The US military said Wednesday that a drone strike in Somalia last week killed a senior al-Shebab figure linked to the notorious 2013 attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
The US drone raid on March 12 struck a vehicle carrying Adan Garar, who "was a key operative responsible for coordinating al-Shebab's external operations" and was "connected" to the Westgate massacre, the Pentagon said in a statement.