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BY ADNAN S. KHAN
ANCHOR JENNIFER MECKLES
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One wrong turn and Africa’s “most wanted Al Qaeda operative” is dead. France 24 has the story.
“Lying on the ground, Fazul Abullah Mohammed, one of the most wanted men in the world. Considered to be Al-Qaeda leader in East Africa. These pictures were taken after he and a well-known Kenyan jihadist were shot dead on Wednesday by Somali police in the suburb of Mogadishu. Mohammed was accused of playing a lead role in the 1998 bombing attacks on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Killing over 200 people.”
Mohammed was trying to reach the Al-Qaeda controlled area of Mogadishu when the driver took a wrong turn and ended up at a government check point. They tried to escape and were shot dead. The Sydney Morning Herald quotes U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton as saying…
“It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents ... - Tanzanians, Kenyans, Somalis, and our own embassy personnel.”
The Associated Press reports Mohammed spent 13 years on the FBI’s most wanted list, and his actions were considered the precursor to the war on terror. But Al Jazeera notes -- this might not be as great a victory as it seems.
“In 1998, then U.S. president Bill Clinton immediate strikes in Afghanistan and at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, in retaliation for the embassy attacks. But those bombings didn’t destroy Al-Qaeda. Three years later 9/11 happened and it’s impossible to say if Fazul Abdullah Mohammeds death, even after the killing of Osama bin Laden, will do much to weaken the organization.”
Finally – TIME says international observers are missing the bigger picture -- the dangerous condition of Somalia itself.
“…in the last five years it seems Somalia has become too dangerous even for wanted international terrorists.”
TIME also reports Mohammed’s death means the last of the 1998 embassy bombers has been eliminated.
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