Top al Qaeda militant killed in Somalia
source: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSLE02100020090915
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. special forces in helicopters attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of east Africa's most wanted al Qaeda militants, witnesses and U.S. sources said.
Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, was suspected of building the truck bomb that killed 15 people at a Kenyan hotel in 2002, as well as involvement in a simultaneous, but botched, missile launch at an Israeli airliner leaving Mombasa airport.
A senior Somali government source said the fugitive was in a car with other foreign insurgents from the al Shabaab rebel group when they were hit near Roobow village in Barawe District, some 250 km (150 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu.
Washington says al Shabaab is al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia.
"Nabhan and four other top foreign commanders ... were killed in the raid," the government source said.
"These young fighters do not have the same skills as their colleagues in Afghanistan or elsewhere when it comes to foreign air strikes," the government source told Reuters.
"They are in confusion now. I hope the world takes action."
U.S. sources familiar with the operation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States believed Nabhan had been killed and his body had been taken into U.S. custody.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to comment "on any alleged operation in Somalia".
Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, was suspected of building the truck bomb that killed 15 people at a Kenyan hotel in 2002, as well as involvement in a simultaneous, but botched, missile launch at an Israeli airliner leaving Mombasa airport.
A senior Somali government source said the fugitive was in a car with other foreign insurgents from the al Shabaab rebel group when they were hit near Roobow village in Barawe District, some 250 km (150 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu.
Washington says al Shabaab is al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia.
"Nabhan and four other top foreign commanders ... were killed in the raid," the government source said.
"These young fighters do not have the same skills as their colleagues in Afghanistan or elsewhere when it comes to foreign air strikes," the government source told Reuters.
"They are in confusion now. I hope the world takes action."
U.S. sources familiar with the operation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States believed Nabhan had been killed and his body had been taken into U.S. custody.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to comment "on any alleged operation in Somalia".
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krush_productions
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Let me get this straight several helicopters attacked a car, killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, and then retrieved the body from the scene? Why bother getting a body out of a car you just blew up? They played it safe in the helicopters, why botch that with body retrieval?
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krush_productions
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MilchMann
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Please, where are the neocon what is Obama doing ot stop Al-Qaeda MF's now. I dare you to speak.
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MilchMann
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cego
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thats pretty bad ass
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cego
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samthesixth
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One less.
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samthesixth
