The camp, where about 200
Al Shabaab fighters were believed to be training, had been monitored for
several weeks before the attack.
The Al Qaeda-linked group
is battling an African Union military force supporting a Western-backed
government.
A US airstrike on an Al
Shabaab training camp in Somalia is believed to have killed 150 militants,
according to the Pentagon.
The camp, about 120 miles
(195km) north of the capital Mogadishu, was hit by missiles fired from drones
and manned aircraft over the weekend.
"The fighters were
there training and were training for a large-scale attack. We know they were
going to be departing the camp and they posed an imminent threat to US and
(African Union) forces," Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said.
"Initial assessments
are that more than 150 terrorist fighters were eliminated," he added.
Earlier on Monday, an AU
peacekeeper and two Somali soldiers were wounded when Al Shabaab detonated a
bomb outside the airport in the town of Beledweyne.
"We were behind the
blast that targeted Djibouti forces. We shall give details of casualties
later," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al Shabaab's military operation
spokesman, told Reuters.
The bomb was hidden in a
"paper bag", according to Ibrahim, a local military officer who did
not wish to reveal his full name.
Last month, a plane was
forced to make an emergency landing after a bomb smuggled aboard at Mogadishu
International Airport exploded mid-air, killing the suspected suicide bomber.
Meanwhile, a huge cache of
weapons bound for Somalia has been seized off the coast of Oman.
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