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Somalia: Al-Qaeda Leader killed in the US air raid
Wed. January 10, 2007 11:07 am.
Mohamed Abdi Farah
(SomaliNet) Somalia government official said on Wednesday that Al-Qaeda leader wanted for the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 has been killed in the latest US air strikes in the southern tip of Somalia.
Abdirisak Hassan, the chief of Somalia president’s staff said he had been told that Fazul Abdulahi Mohamed was killed by the American air raid.
“I received this information from the US dairy of the targets and list of the damage done by the air bombardment,” said Hassan, a senior official in the transitional government. Washington gave no details on Fazul’ death.
Earlier, the US officials said that Mr. Muhammad, 32, planned the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 225 people.
If the Fazul's death is confirmed it would be a severe blow to the Al-Qaeda Network and a major victory for the United States government in its hunt for the 1998 embassy bombers.
Meanwhile, the Islamist leaders are holed up in a jungle near the Kenyan border fighting the Ethiopian backed interim government forces.
An American AC-130 gunship pounded the area Sunday night because American officials believed that several Al Qaeda terrorists, including Mr. Muhammad, were hiding there with the Somali Islamists.
Since June, when the Islamist movement rose up to power, the US officials have been complaining that Islamist leaders were sheltering terrorists connected to the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
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