{"id":5248,"date":"2014-09-15T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2014-09-15T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T06:52:29","slug":"report-france-aided-somalia-al-shabaab-leader-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/report-france-aided-somalia-al-shabaab-leader-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: France aided Somalia al-Shabaab leader assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French intelligence services assisted Washington in the operation that killed the commander of Somalia\u2019s Shabaab militant group earlier this month, local media reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrance and President (Francois Hollande) supported with intelligence and coordination\u201d a U.S. air strike that killed Ahmed Godane, the commander of the Islamist faction responsible for a string of deadly attacks throughout Somalia, the weekly Le Point magazine said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. confirmed that Godane &#8211; one of the world\u2019s eight top terror fugitives &#8211; was killed in a drone and aircraft strike in southern Somalia on September 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/News\/middle-east\/2014\/09\/13\/Report-France-aided-Somalia-al-Shabaab-leader-assassination-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French intelligence services assisted Washington in the operation that killed the commander of Somalia\u2019s Shabaab militant group earlier this month, local media reported Saturday. \u201cFrance and President (Francois Hollande) supported with intelligence and coordination\u201d a U.S. air strike that killed Ahmed Godane, the commander of the Islamist faction responsible for a string of deadly attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[258,256,4006,4066,570,4695,2890,4062,357,257,4690,442,4063,254,4065,4064],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahmed-godane","tag-aircraft-strike","tag-al-shabaab","tag-east-africa","tag-francois-hollande","tag-french-intelligence","tag-islamist","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-somalias-shabaab-militant-group","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top-terror-fugitives","tag-u-s-air-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}