U.S. spy drone crashes in south Somalia: rebel, residents [View All]

[The Northerner]

(Reuters) - An unmanned U.S. spy drone has crashed in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayu, a bastion of the al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab Islamist group, a rebel official and residents said.

The incident over the weekend came as residents cited an increase in the frequency of drones flying over Kismayu in the past few weeks.

The U.S. embassy in Nairobi declined to comment immediately.

"This plane was a spy for the American government and by the will of Allah, it crashed near the airport," al Shabaab official Sheikh Ibrahim Guled told Reuters on Monday.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/26/us-somalia-drone-idUSTRE78P34020110926