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http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080304/NATION/722487088/1001

“U.S. strike kills terrorist”
By Sara A. Carter
March 4, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “U.S. forces found, targeted and killed in a Somali desert city the senior al Qaeda operative who masterminded the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa and had since spent a decade in hiding, The Washington Times has learned.

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who is one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists, was the target of a U.S. missile strike on a residence in Dobley, a small town in southern Somalia near the Kenyan border, according to a U.S. military official who spoke to The Times on the condition of anonymity because of the nature of the operation.

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http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm

http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/nabhan.htm

“SEEKING INFORMATION
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan”

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/03/us_airstrike_hits_al.php

“US airstrike hits al Qaeda safe house in Somalia”
By BILL ROGGIOMarch 3, 2008 10:28 AM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The US military launched an airstrike at an al Qaeda safe house in the town of Dobley in southern Somalia, just four miles from the Kenyan border. “We launched a deliberate strike against a suspected bed-down of known terrorists,” a senior US military official told Reuters.

The target of the strike has not been identified at this time, but the US military believes the strike was successful. At least eight were reported killed and six more are reported to be trapped inside the rubble of the safe house.

This is the fourth known US-led airstrike against al Qaeda operatives in Somalia since the Ethiopian operation to drive the Islamic Courts from power was launched in late December 2006. The Ethiopians also launched airstrikes against Islamic Courts fighters who were into Kenya in early January 2007.

The US targeted Fazul Abdullah Mohammad, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, and Abu Tala al Sudani during the early 2007 strikes. Fazul was again targeted in June 2007. They are believed to be sheltering in Somalia, and one or more of them may have been the target of today’s strike.”