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Senior al-Shabaab official of Lebanese descent killed by US drone

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23-01-2012 | 07:19

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Senior al-Shabaab official of Lebanese descent killed by US drone

Scores of families fled Elasha town in Somalia and the surrounding area on Saturday night after al Shabaab said a missile fired by a U.S. drone had hit a car in the town, about 13 km from Mogadishu, killing one of its senior foreign militants.

In a statement emailed late on Saturday, the insurgents said the militant was British passport holder Bilal el Berjawi, also known as Abu Hafsa, of Lebanese descent. The statement said Berjawi had grown up in west London and joined Somalia's Islamist militants in early 2006.

“Hafsa ... took on a distinguished role in the fight against the warlords that terrorized the city of Mogadishu at the time," the statement said.

But a British foreign office official denied Berjawi was a British national. No other details were immediately available.

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