A weekend US drone strike against an area just outside of Mogadishu has reportedly killed a British citizen, Bilal al-Berjawi, a top al-Shabaab member in charge of recruitment. The killing was praised by officials from the self-proclaimed Somali government, who issued an official statement saying “good riddance.”
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Good. England is better off without “Brits” like that.
He was hardly "British". More likely a legacy of Blair's open-doors policy to make the U.K. more multicultural to help Labour stay in power.
He was not "in charge of recruitment." There was no evidence that he had any involvement with militants in Somalia. Please refrain from parroting State Dept nonsense