location: Mogadishu - Wardhigley
notes: A pro-AS website confirmed on 21/01 that Mr. Bilal al Berqawi - a top Al-Qaida leader in East Africa from British nationality and Lebanese descent - had been killed in an airstrike targeting AS positions in an undisclosed location on 05/01/2012. The man was presented as an early Mujahideen who had been fighting in Somalia since before the set-up of the ICU and is believed to have been second in command after Mr. Fazul Mohamed - killed the year before at a TFG check-point in ex-Control Afgooye in Mogadishu in June 2011. The statement specifies that the airstrike had been conducted by a suspected US drone.
target_text: location: Mogadishu - Wardhigley, fatalities: 1