(cnn)a key al shabaab operative, who was connected to the westgate mall attack in kenya, was killed recently by a us drone strike, the pentagon announced wednesday adan garar, a member of al shabaab's intelligence and security wing, was killed thursday in southwestern somalia as he traveled in a vehicle, according to pentagon news release garar was responsible for 'coordinating the terror group's external operations, which target us persons and other western interests in order to further al qaeda's goals and objectives,' the pentagon said in the statement in september, al shabaab leader ahmed abdi godane was also killed in a us airstrike near barawe city al shabaab has been blamed and taken responsibility for attacks on city streets, at markets, at prisons and a un compound in mogadishu it's most high profile attack came in 2013 at nairobi's upscale westgate mall, when terrorists casually walked into the building, pulled out weapons and began gunning down shoppers the gunmen were accused of torturing some hostages before killing them as many as 67 people died in the siege
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