Senior Al-Qaeda Militant Is Killed in Operation in South Somalia
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Somalia’s government said a top leader of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group died in an operation carried out by the national army and international security partners.
Abdullahi Nadir, a co-founder of al-Shabaab, died in a raid in Haramka in southern Somalia on Oct. 1, the government said in a statement published on its state-run news agency on Monday. Nadir had been preparing to succeed Ahmed Diriye, the current head of al-Shabaab, who’s health is deteriorating, it said.