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US Bombards Somalia For Third Day
US forces launched a third consecutive day of air strikes in Somalia today as a Somali government official said one of three al-Qaida suspects targeted by the raids was believed to have been killed.
The official said the operation was understood to have killed an al-Qaida militant thought to be behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people in all.
"I have received a report from the American side chronicling the targets and list of damage. One of the items they were claiming was that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is dead," said Abdirizak Hassan, the Somali president's chief of staff.
Mohammed was reportedly killed during the first wave of attacks on Monday, when US AC-130 planes attacked targets around Ras Kamboni, in the south of the country, he said.
The suspect is thought to have been one of the key targets of the US strikes, along with Abu Taha al-Sudani, a Sudanese explosives expert believed to head al-Qaida operations in east Africa, and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Kenyan.
It was not known whether either of the other two men had been killed, the official added.
The Reuters news agency quoted a government source as saying a new attack was taking place after raids on Monday and yesterday. "As we speak now, the area is being bombarded by the American air force," the source said.
He said the attacks had targeted four places close to Ras Kamboni, a coastal village near the Kenyan border where many fugitive Islamists are believed to be sheltering after Ethiopian forces began an offensive into Somalia last month.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,1986969,00.html
"I have received a report from the American side chronicling the targets and list of damage. One of the items they were claiming was that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is dead," said Abdirizak Hassan, the Somali president's chief of staff.
Mohammed was reportedly killed during the first wave of attacks on Monday, when US AC-130 planes attacked targets around Ras Kamboni, in the south of the country, he said.
The suspect is thought to have been one of the key targets of the US strikes, along with Abu Taha al-Sudani, a Sudanese explosives expert believed to head al-Qaida operations in east Africa, and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Kenyan.
It was not known whether either of the other two men had been killed, the official added.
The Reuters news agency quoted a government source as saying a new attack was taking place after raids on Monday and yesterday. "As we speak now, the area is being bombarded by the American air force," the source said.
He said the attacks had targeted four places close to Ras Kamboni, a coastal village near the Kenyan border where many fugitive Islamists are believed to be sheltering after Ethiopian forces began an offensive into Somalia last month.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,,1986969,00.html
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Residents in Afmadow town described two attacks nearby, whilst another occurred on the coast in Ras Kamboni.
This follows air raids earlier this week by US forces who said they were targeting suspected al-Qaeda leaders. At least 20 civilians have died.
The United Nations Security Council is set to meet to consider moves to send African peacekeepers into Somalia.
The initiative was agreed before the Islamic Courts militia were ousted by Ethiopia-backed government forces.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6247111.stm