Senior al-Qa’ida commander killed in Somalia

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As a fugitive terror target with a $5m (£3m) bounty on his head, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for almost a decade. But it was revealed yesterday that his life on the run was over after African police and U.S. authorities confirmed that he had been shot dead at a roadblock in Somalia. Mohammed, considered one of al-Qa’ida’s most senior commanders, remained the chief suspect for the bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The first time al-Qa’ida had struck US targets, 224 people were killed in the two attacks. Five thousand more, mainly Kenyans, were injured….

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