Posted on 01/10/2007 5:34:56 AM PST by IrishMike
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A senior Al Qaeda suspect wanted for bombing U.S. embassies in East Africa was killed by U.S. airstrikes, a Somali official said Wednesday as witnesses said U.S forces launched a third day of strikes.
Also Wednesday, Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister said American troops were needed on the ground to root extremists from his troubled country, and he expected the troops soon.
The death of Al Qaeda suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was detailed in an American intelligence report passed on to the Somali authorities. Mohammed, one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists who has evaded capture for eight years, was allegedly harbored by a Somali Islamic movement that had challenged this country's Ethiopian-backed government for power.
"I have received a report from the American side chronicling the targets and list of damage," Abdirizak Hassan, the Somali president's chief of staff, told the AP. "One of the items they were claiming was that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is dead."
In Washington, a U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday the U.S. killed five to 10 people believed to be associated with Al Qaeda. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the operation's sensitivity, said a small number of others present, perhaps four or five, were wounded.
Mohammed, 32, joined Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and trained there with Usama bin Laden, the terror network's leader, according to the transcript of an FBI interrogation of a known associate. He has a US$5 million price on his head for allegedly planning the 1998 attacks on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 225 people.
He is also suspected of planning the car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and the near simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002.
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They must have killed Coffee Annon.
Excellent news.
Now I understand why there are international criticisms starting about these air strikes. Terrorists are being killed again and the left HATES that.
Nancy Pelosi is deeply saddened.
Boots on the ground. Get ready for IEDs and exploding terrorists. The Dems are salivating now.
This should be in the breaking news section.
"We will hunt you down and kill you."
Katie Couric wearing Black today ?????
just a thought.
Where have you been ?
Give that pilot a cee-gar! :)
Pres Bush continues to do the work of the Impeached one.
Fazul sleeps with the fishes...
Gee the intel must be better now under Bush.
"A senior Al Qaeda suspect wanted for bombing U.S. embassies in East Africa was killed by U.S. airstrikes"
Now this one really is Bush's fault.
I suspect a little contraband alcohol was 'found' to go along with those cigars. ;0)
Since it took 9 years to find him and kill him, maybe the Republicans should grow some spine and the next time the left whines that we still haven't gotten Osama bin Laden, we should just remind them that it took 9 years to finish Clinton's business.
Fazul's body was so devastated by the airstrike that it looked like spaghetti. He will now be known as "Pasta Fazul."
He will now be known as "Pasta Fazul."
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Not that's good !!!!
Will the media and world leaders be as depressed as they were over the hanging of Saddam?
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