{"id":2582,"date":"2020-04-07T23:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2020-04-07T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:00:16","slug":"al-shabab-founder-behind-kenya-attacks-killed-in-an-airstrike-in-somalia-by-us-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab founder behind Kenya attacks killed in an airstrike in Somalia by US forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States has killed the founding  member of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, Yusuf Jiis, in an airstrike in Somalia. <br><br> The commander of US Africa Command, Gen Stephen Townsend, described Jiis as a brutal, ruthless killer who plotted against United States Interest in East Africa  and had a hand in hijacking ships in the Indian Ocean.<br><br>The US has significantly increased attacks in Somalia since US President Donald Trump took office.<br><br>The USA says it will not relent on killing militants in Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of powerful Somali militants have been killed in US air attacks.<br><br>There has been no word from al-shabab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has killed the founding member of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, Yusuf Jiis, in an airstrike in Somalia. The commander of US Africa Command, Gen Stephen Townsend, described Jiis as a brutal, ruthless killer who plotted against United States Interest in East Africa and had a hand in hijacking ships in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}