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2011-06-11 Africa Horn

'East Africa embassy bomber Fazul Abdullah Mohammed killed'

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Posted by tipper 2011-06-11 09:39|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 This is truly excellent news

Posted by Squinty Chaith8856 2011-06-11 09:51|| 2011-06-11 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 I hope it was slow and painful

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-11 10:02|| 2011-06-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Honey, Brut or Dry/sec?

Posted by Jack Salami 2011-06-11 10:12|| 2011-06-11 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 His Jihadist activities started long before August 7, 1998:

"Mohammed spent time in Mogadishu planning a truck bombing against a United Nations establishment there, and was in the city on October 3, 1993 when Somali gunmen brought down two American helicopters and killed 18 U.S. special operations soldiers."

Posted by 4mrG-man 2011-06-11 10:17|| 2011-06-11 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Update:
Abdullah and a fellow militant were shot dead by Somali Transitional Federal Government forces at a checkpoint in Mogadishu, Somali security officials told AFP and Reuters.

"Our forces fired on two men who refused to stop at a roadblock. They tried to defend themselves when they were surrounded by our men," TFG commander Abdikarim Yusuf told AFP.

"We took their ID documents, one of which was a foreign passport," he said, adding that medicine, mobile phones and laptops were also found.

Somali sources told AFP that Abdullah was carrying some $40,000 in cash and a South African passport bearing the name "Daniel Robinson".

Issued on 13 April 2009, it indicated that Abdullah had left South Africa on 19 March 2011 for Tanzania, where he was granted a visa.

Halima Aden, a senior Somali national security officer, confirmed that Abdullah was killed at a checkpoint this week, and that he had a South African passport.

"After thorough investigation, we confirmed it was him, and then we buried his corpse," he told the Reuters news agency.

One source told AFP that the incident took place at about 0200 on Wednesday (2300 GMT on Tuesday) in the Afgooye corridor, a 20km-long strip of land north-west of Mogadishu.

Photographs, published by AFP, of the face of one of the bodies bore similarities to those on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists website.

The two bodies were collected by members of the Somali National Security Agency and then given to US officials for identification, AFP said.

Kenya's Police Commissioner, Matthew Iteere, told reporters on Saturday that he was liaising with Somali officials to get a full report.

"We have been told that there were two terrorists who were killed in Somalia on Wednesday. They were identified as Fazul Mohammed and Ali Dere. That is what we have been told by our counterparts," he said.

The US embassy in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, said it was investigating the reports.

Born in the Comoros islands in the early 1970s, Abdullah is believed to have joined al-Qaeda in Afghanistan during the 1990s.

After the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998, which killed 224 people, the US accused him of involvement and issued a $5m reward for information leading to capture.

In 2002, Abdullah was believed to have been put in charge of al-Qaeda operations in East Africa. That year, he was blamed for the bombing of a beach resort in Kenya, which left 13 people dead, and an attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger aircraft.

In 2007, he survived a US air strike on the southern Somali coastal village of Hayo, near the town of Ras Kamboni.

In recent years, Abdullah is thought to have fought alongside members of the Somali Islamist militant group, al-Shabab, which declared allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2010.

Al-Shabab controls much of southern Somalia and has been fighting government forces and African Union troops for control of Mogadishu.

Posted by tipper 2011-06-11 10:55|| 2011-06-11 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Daniel Robertson? REALLY? He was just asking to get shot.

Posted by Charles 2011-06-11 11:12|| 2011-06-11 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 "We took their ID documents, one of which was a foreign passport," he said, adding that medicine, mobile phones and laptops were also found.

Oooooh, more toys for the smart boys and girls to play with, as soon as they've gotten some sleep after going through the bin Laden cache! It has been interesting, watching how much this war has come to rely on capturing and exploiting information in new ways, not just vastly superior weaponry and soldiery.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-11 12:18|| 2011-06-11 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Issued on 13 April 2009, it indicated that Abdullah had left South Africa on 19 March 2011 for Tanzania, where he was granted a visa

Which would reinforce conjectures about South Africa serving as a haven for Islamic terrorism.

Posted by Pappy 2011-06-11 13:52|| 2011-06-11 13:52|| Front Page Top

#9 LWJ has his final photo.

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-11 14:16|| 2011-06-11 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Looks like he took at least one in the chest or upper abdomen. You may have gotten your wish, Frank.

Posted by Steve White 2011-06-11 17:13|| 2011-06-11 17:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Looks like him. Good riddance. Now take out the garbage.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-06-11 18:13|| 2011-06-11 18:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Would it be barbaric to make that picture my background for a couple days?

Posted by Charles 2011-06-11 19:12|| 2011-06-11 19:12|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd make an animated gif, but he isn't moving much

Posted by Frank G 2011-06-11 19:14|| 2011-06-11 19:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Welcome to HELL, Fazul. Sorry about the long waiting line.

Well, not really....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2011-06-11 20:18|| 2011-06-11 20:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Considering his current 'stable' state Frank - I think that is as animated as he's going to get.

(Barring Zombiehood)

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-06-11 20:34|| 2011-06-11 20:34|| Front Page Top

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