Posted on 09/15/2009 5:48:28 AM PDT by myknowledge
* Nabhan accused of 2002 Mombasa bomb
* Was allied with Somalia's al Shabaab rebels
* Insurgents vow to target Western nations
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MOGADISHU, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents denounced a U.S. commando raid that killed one of east Africa's most wanted al Qaeda suspects and vowed on Tuesday to continue their fight against Western nations.
U.S. special forces in helicopters struck a car in rebel-held southern Somalia on Monday, killing the Kenyan said to have built the truck bomb that claimed 15 lives at an Israeli-owned beach hotel on the Kenyan coast in 2002.
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, was also accused of involvement in a simultaneous, but botched, missile attack on a Israeli airliner packed with tourists as it left nearby Mombasa.
Several senior Somali government sources said he had been killed along with four other foreign members of al Shabaab, which Washington describes as al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia.
The rebel group responded angrily to his death.
"Al Shabaab will continue targeting Western countries, especially America ... we are killing them and they are hunting us," an al Shabaab spokesman, Sheikh Bare Mohamed Farah Khoje, told Reuters by telephone from the southern region of Gedo.
"We wish we could eradicate them all. We will never forget our brothers who were targeted illegally by the United States."
The attack marked an apparent change in tactics for the U.S. military, which has previously targeted wanted militants in Somalia using missiles, as opposed to helicopter-borne troops.
Western security agencies say the failed Horn of Africa state has become a safe haven for militants, including foreigners, who use it to plot attacks in the region and beyond.
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Uh, Sharia law?
Um... “BooFrigginHoo”
I meant targeted Somalia as a most likely breeding ground and training camp for Al-Qaeda.
...take it up with the NYT...they'll past on your concerns to President Odumbo
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
Slam?..They have a Denny's in Somalia?..................
funny, he looks Kenyan............IYKWIM..............
The bacon strips are haraam food and the chicken is not prepared the halal way.
ERADICATE these BASTARDS!
But it’s okay to wipe your butt with your bare hand...............
Bravo to the U.S. commando team that led the assassination EXTERMINATION raid on the Al-Qaeda terrorist. (You don't assissinate vermin, you exterminate them.)
If our stupid government keeps allowing more and more Somalis to immigrate here there won’t be anybody left in Somalia.
Ummm, dude...that's generally how we do things. Leave us and our friends alone, and we'll leave you alone.
It could have been worse...he could've been captured last year, and waterboarded a few times, obviously a fate worse than death.
Heh... That guy looks like Ubama.
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