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A more productive way then war for eliminating terroists

nonothing

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This is my Idea of taking care of terriorists...target and shoot,then move on to the next one.





MOGADISHU, Somalia - The suspected al-Qaida militant who planned the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa was killed in an American airstrike in Somalia, an official said Wednesday.



"I have received a report from the American side chronicling the targets and list of damage," Abdirizak Hassan, the Somali president's chief of staff, told The Associated Press. "One of the items they were claiming was that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is dead."

Mohammed, 32, allegedly planned the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 225 people.

He is also suspected of planning the car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and the near simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002. Ten Kenyans and three Israelis were killed in the blast at the hotel, 12 miles north of Mombasa. The missiles missed the airliner.

Mohammed is thought to have been the main target of an American helicopter attack Monday afternoon on Badmadow island off southern Somalia.

Mohammed joined al-Qaida in Afghanistan and trained there with Osama bin Laden, according to the transcript of an FBI interrogation of a known associate. He came to Kenya in the mid-1990s, married a local woman, became a citizen and started teaching at a religious school near Lamu, just 60 miles south of Ras Kamboni, Somalia, where one of the airstrikes took place Monday.

A slight, youthful man born in Comoros, an Indian Ocean archipelago-nation, he is a master of disguises, able to appear African, South Asian or Arab. He speaks French, Arabic, Swahili and English and the FBI says he likes to dress casually and wear baseball caps.

Kenyan and U.S. authorities believe Fazul has been hiding in Somalia since the 2002 hotel attack. In 2003, the CIA was offering rewards to Somali warlords in return for capturing al-Qaida suspects. At least two were captured, but Fazul managed to evade them with the help of Somali Islamic extremists.

Fazul was briefly captured by Kenyan police for credit card fraud, but the officers did not recognize him as a terrorist suspect. He escaped the next day.

In Somalia, he was protected by members of Al-Ittihad al-Islami, an organization listed by the United States as a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida. The leader of Al-Ittihad, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, later became the key organizer of the Council of Islamic Courts in January 2006.

The Islamic courts fighters captured Somalia's capital Mogadishu in June, and by August controlled most of southern Somalia.

Ethiopia intervened on Dec. 24, and over 10 days drove the Islamic leaders, and the alleged terrorist suspects, into the rugged, forested southern corner of Somalia.

On Wednesday, Hassan said that American airstrikes in Somalia would continue.

"I know it happened yesterday, it will happen today and it will happen tomorrow," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_af/somalia
 
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