Top al Qaeda operative killed in Somalia, officials say
By the CNN Wire Staff
June 11, 2011 1:16 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: U.S. official confirms that al Qaeda leader is dead
He was killed as he refused to stop at a Mogadishu checkpoint
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was wanted in connection to 1998 embassy bombing.
(CNN) -- A top al Qaeda operative in East Africa, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, was killed at a Somali checkpoint in Mogadishu, Kenyan and U.S. officials told CNN Saturday.
Mohammed, a citizen of both Kenya and Comoros, was long sought in Somalia for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Mohammed was stopped at a roadblock manned by forces of the Somali transitional government, but he sped through, sparking the troops to shoot him, a senior official in neighboring Kenya said.
"We commend the good work by the (transitional government). Fazul's death removes one of the terrorist group's most experienced operational planners in East Africa and has almost certainly set back operations," said a senior U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak on the record.
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Top al Qaeda operative killed in Somalia
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