Somalia Strike Kills Top Al Qaeda Suspect Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan

President Obama’s First Somalia Strike Kills Top Al Qaeda Suspect Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan
Post date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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* BBC News brings us the following good news this Tuesday morning and their report starts off like this... US forces are "likely" to have killed a top al-Qaeda suspect during a military raid in Somalia, US officials say... They flew helicopters into Somalia and attacked a car they say was carrying Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan... US agents have been hunting Nabhan for years over attacks on a hotel and an Israeli airliner in Kenya in 2002... It is believed he fled to Somalia after the attacks and was working with the al-Shabab group, which the Americans see as al-Qaeda's proxy in Somalia...
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Al-Qaeda Somalia suspect 'killed'
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* CSMonitor.com reports it this way... US commandos killed Kenyan national Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in a helicopter raid against Mr. Nabhan's convoy, as it traveled through the Barawe district in southern Somalia...
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Obama's first Somalia strike hits Al Qaeda suspect
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* Telegraph.co.uk has this report and it starts off like this... Six helicopters were involved in the attack in which Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed and his body was recovered and taken away... The operation had echoes of the notorious "Black Hawk Down" mission in 1993 in which two helicopters were shot down by Somali gunmen during the Battle for Mogadishu... It is thought to have been the first time American boots have been on Somali soil since the debacle...
Read this report in full at link below...
Al-Qaeda man killed in 'Black Hawk Down' raid

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US Forces Kill Leading Al Qaeda Suspect

About this video: US forces say they've killed one of the FBI's most wanted men, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who had suspected links to Al Qaeda.
This news video posted on YouTube by itnnews
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