Confirmed: Somalian Extremists Shot Down US Drone

U.S. defense officials are confirming that an American drone went down in Somalia today, reports Politico. It would mark the first such loss in Somalia. From Politico: "During the course of a routine surveillance mission along the coast of Somalia on May 27, a military remotely piloted aircraft crashed in a remote area near the shoreline of Mogadishu," a defense spokesman told POLITICO on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab posted on Twitter what it claimsed were p...