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Title: Al Qaeda Operative Key To 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed In Somalia
Source: LA TIMES
URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationw ... bings-20110612,0,4952133.story
Published: Jun 11, 2011
Author: Brian Bennett and Ken Dilanian
Post Date: 2011-06-11 19:57:56 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 583
Comments: 3

Reporting from Washington— In a blow to Al Qaeda's efforts to control havens in East Africa, the Al Qaeda operative believed responsible for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya has been gunned down by Somali security forces, U.S. officials said Saturday.

The killing of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is another major loss for the terrorist organization after the death of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in Pakistan six weeks ago.

Mohammed was an experienced operational planner who played a major role in persuading African militant groups involved in local insurrections to join Al Qaeda's global fight, U.S. officials and experts said.

White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan said in a statement Saturday that Mohammed's death is a "huge setback" for Al Qaeda.

The FBI's most-wanted man in Africa, Mohammed played a leadership role in the planning of the 1998 bombings that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

"It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement released during a visit to Tanzania on Saturday.

The State Department had offered a $5-million reward for information leading to Mohammed.

Somali security forces did not immediately identify Mohammed when he was killed during a shootout Wednesday at a checkpoint northwest of Mogadishu, the capital. His identity was not confirmed until Saturday.

A Kenyan national, Mohammed had expert computer skills and a preference for baseball caps, according to a State Department report.

Mohammed was crucial in persuading members of the Somali militant group Shabab to pledge loyalty to Al Qaeda in recent years, said a U.S. intelligence official who discussed intelligence matters on the condition of anonymity.

Shabab has been at the forefront of radicalizing and recruiting first- and second-generation Somali Americans to join the fight against Somalia's United Nations-backed government.

Over the last 10 years, Al Qaeda has placed "great emphasis" on expanding its operations into ungoverned regions of East Africa, said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University.

"Mohammed found ways to take those [militant groups] with more nationalist regional aims and pull them into the broader global jihad," Cilluffo said.

In East Africa, Al Qaeda will have trouble finding a leader with Mohammed's standing and savvy, said Rick Nelson, a counter-terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.

"He will be replaced, but not by another individual with his type of experience and his competence," Nelson said.

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#1. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited)

If 'Fazul Abdullah Mohammed' Ain't Ali Muhammed, then he ain't shit...

"The 9/11 Report mentioned him, and said that the plotters against the U.S. Embassy in Kenya were “led” (their word) by Ali Mohamed.10 That’s the Report’s only reference to him, though it’s not all they heard.

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney who negotiated a plea bargain and confession from Ali Mohamed, said this in testimony to the Commission Ali Mohamed. …. trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership – including Bin Laden and Zawahiri – and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers.

He gave some training to persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing…. From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator.11 Patrick Fitzgerald knew Ali Mohamed well."

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3422

And the Article Referenced above is to cover for this:

"Niece kills Somalia's interior minister By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: Jun 10, 2011 23:10 Updated: Jun 10, 2011 23:10 MOGADISHU: An explosion Friday in the home of Somalia's interior minister killed him and a woman suspected of being the suicide bomber as violent demonstrations swept the capital." 8D

" 13 NATO trainers and Afghan policemen killed, 18 injured in Khost police headquarter martyr attack: TalibanSubmitted 8 mins ago

http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-ne...ter-martyr-attack-Taliban

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-06-12   10:32:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: All (#1)

In November 1990, three of Mohamed’s trainees conspired together to kill Meir Kahane, the racist founder of the Jewish Defense League. The actual killer, El Sayyid Nosair, was caught by accident almost immediately; and by luck the police soon found his two co-conspirators, Mahmoud Abouhalima and Mohammed Salameh, waiting at Nosair’s house. They found much more:

There were formulas for bomb making, 1,440 rounds of ammunition, and manuals [supplied by Ali Mohamed] from the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg marked “Top Secret for Training,” along with classified documents belonging to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The police found maps and drawings of New York City landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Times Square – and the World Trade Center. The forty-seven boxes of evidence they collected also included the collected sermons of blind Sheikh Omar, in which he exhorted his followers to “destroy the edifices of capitalism.”28

All three had been trained by Ali Mohamed back in the late 1980s at a rifle range, where the FBI had photographed them, before terminating this surveillance in the fall of 1989.29

The U.S. Government was thus in an excellent position to arrest, indict, and convict all of the terrorists involved, including Mohamed.

Yet only hours after the killing, Joseph Borelli, Chief of NYPD detectives, struck a familiar American note and pronounced Nosair a “lone deranged gunman.”30 Some time later, he actually told the press that “There was nothing [at Nosair’s house] that would stir your imagination…..Nothing has transpired that changes our opinion that he acted alone.”31

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-06-12   10:54:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2) (Edited)

And just for shits&giggles:

"It turned out Hamburg co-conspirator Ramzi Bin Alshibh had also wanted to come to Venice. (He didn’t. His visa request was denied, it was later learned.)

“Atta patronized local bars and businesses. He told the manager of the Outlook bar he was from Germany and came to Venice to learn to fly. Atta and several friends were regulars at a Venice bar (at the Venice Airport) called the 44th Aero Squadron.”

“I never had any problem with them,” said owner Ken Schortzmann. “He had a fanny pack with a fat roll of cash in it.”

Remember the fanny pack. It will come up again.

“A dancer at the Cheetah Lounge (in Sarasota) also reported seeing one of the alleged terrorists at the strip club… A club manager escorted a Herald reporter out of the club shortly afterward, saying the Cheetah had no comment.”

Now we hear what will soon become the official story.

“Huffman flight instructors have said they believe Atta left the area shortly after receiving his pilot’s certification.”

But Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter Earle Kimel had already noted a discrepancy.

“However, Atta may have been in Venice as recently as April. Charles Grapentine, the manager of Sandpiper Apartments on Airport Avenue in Venice, said he remembers seeing Atta at the complex for about three weeks in April. "

“He said Atta was living in the apartment of Amanda Keller.”

It was just two days after the attack.

http://www.madcowprod.com/05242011.htm

mcgowanjm  posted on  2011-06-12   11:38:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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