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2007-01-11 Africa Horn

US Confirms Fazul Abdullah Mohammed Killed! UPDATE: Maybe Not.

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Posted by Gromogum Elmereter5708 2007-01-11 08:32|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Amazing how the only aspect of the affair which merits "criticism" from these dolts is America's involvement. The time has long since come and gone that these "critics" and their paymasters be made to pay a price for their bigotry and their treason to civilization.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-11 09:04|| 2007-01-11 09:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The time has long since come and gone that these "critics" and their paymasters be made to pay a price for their bigotry and their treason to civilization.

So you're saying they should be forced back into doing the usual hack scripts for the Hollyweird based media?

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-11 09:21|| 2007-01-11 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Bam!

Posted by Emeril 2007-01-11 09:23|| 2007-01-11 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 not so fast.

Wire services say today, we didnt get him, all the deaders were AQ linked Somalis.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-01-11 09:25|| 2007-01-11 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Even if it was only linked AQ, more of this needs to happen more frequently. There is no safe place, there is no rest for our enemies.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-11 09:28|| 2007-01-11 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 It appears we have dueling unnamed sources...

No top Al-Qaeda suspects killed in Somalia air strike, says US official

NAIROBI (AFP) - None of the three top Al-Qaeda suspects in Somalia sought by the United States were killed in a US airstrike this week in the south of the country, a senior US official has said.

"The three high-value targets are still of intense interest to us as well as other Al-Qaeda affiliates," the official told reporters Thursday on condition of anonymity in Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya.

The official said there had been only one US airstrike, on Monday, and that it resulted in no civilian casualties and that the three had not been the primary target of the raid.

"They were not the primary targets. One of the group (that was hit) was a significant Al-Qaeda affiliated figure," the official said. "It was a targeted strike at a group of Al-Qaeda-connected or Al-Qaeda-affiliated people. There were a number of people killed as a result of the strike, but it is too early to say who those people were," he added. "One thing I am sure of is that no civilians were killed."

Clan elders and residents in the bombed region close to the Kenyan border have reported about 100 people killed but said they have so far accounted for 29 bodies, some burned beyond recognition, in more than one airstrike.

Among Al-Qaeda militants held to be in Somalia are Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, whom the United States blame for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, mostly Africans.

Another suspect is Abu Taha al-Sudani, a Sudanese alleged to be an explosives expert close to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and whom the Somali government claimed led Islamist fighters in recent battles.

"Fazul is not dead. We have a variety of assets in the area (and) we have reasons to believe that he is not dead," the official said.

The official denied reports that there are small numbers of US special forces in Somalia."No," he replied when asked about the presence of such US soldiers, "not that I am aware of and I would be aware."

Might want to get the accordion lady up...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-11 09:34|| 2007-01-11 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 heh heh, ya missed me ima alive, only partial narrowly ded, not completely ded, yet!

Posted by Fazul Abdullah Mohammed 2007-01-11 13:16|| 2007-01-11 13:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe tomorrow, Fazul.
Spooky's got plenty of ammo...and all the time in the world.
And don't take it personal when nobody wants to be in the same town with you. They're just probably pretty averse to being turned into hamburger from above...not that that would bother you.

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-11 13:25|| 2007-01-11 13:25|| Front Page Top

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