{"id":1883,"date":"2007-01-11T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/no-top-alqaida-killed-in-somal.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T12:06:00","slug":"no-top-alqaida-killed-in-somal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/01\/no-top-alqaida-killed-in-somal.html","title":{"rendered":"No top al-Qaida killed in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bummer! I was hoping that we got them. At least we have some special ops on the ground<\/a> looking for them:<\/p>\n

A top U.S. official in the region said Thursday that none of the al-Qaida suspects believed to be hiding in Somalia died in a U.S. airstrike this week, but Somalis with close ties to the terrorist group were killed.
\nA day earlier, a Somali official said a U.S. intelligence report had referred to the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the three senior al-Qaida members blamed for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
\nBut the U.S. official in Kenya, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said that Ethiopian troops and U.S. special forces were still pursuing the three suspects in southern Somalia.
\nU.S. and Somali officials said Wednesday that a small team of U.S. special operations forces are in Somalia hunting suspected al-Qaida fighters and providing military advice to Ethiopian and Somali forces on the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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