The Big Fish Got Away
Charles Johnson
Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 10:36 am PST • Views: 293
The reports of the death of senior Al Qaeda freakazoid Fazul Abdullah Mohammed appear to have been premature: No top Al-Qaeda suspects killed in Somali air strike, says US official.
NAIROBI (AFP) - A US airstrike in Somalia killed “eight to 10” alleged Al-Qaeda affiliates, but none of the three top militants sought by the United States in the lawless nation, 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 said Thursday in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, on condition of anonymity.
The official said there had been only one US airstrike, on Monday, that the three suspects had not been “primary targets” of the raid and that, despite reports to the contrary, it resulted in no civilian casualties.
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