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The United States said Friday it had killed the chief of Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants in a bombing raid in Somalia which President Barack Obama said could prove a model for an assault on Islamic State jihadists.

The Pentagon confirmed that Ahmed Abdi Godane perished in the raid on Monday in which US drones and manned aircraft rained Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs on a gathering of Shebab commanders. 

Godane had boasted that Shebab was behind the siege at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last year, which killed at least 67 shoppers, staff and security personnel.

Obama, speaking in Wales after the NATO summit, seized on the results of a Pentagon probe into Monday’s raid to give definition to his separate effort to combat another radical Muslim extremist group, Islamic State (IS), following days of criticism over his anti-terror strategy.

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