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Originally Posted by borked
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This from Fox News...
U.S. Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in southern Somalia on Monday that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of 4 co-conspirators wanted in the 2002 bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, two senior U.S. military officials told FOX News.
President Obama recently signed the Execute Order for Nabhan, who up until now was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. He was also wanted for the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998.
Helicopters deployed from a U.S. Navy vessel near Somalia?s coast strafed a vehicle that Nabhan was using to go back and forth between meetings. Intelligence operatives had been monitoring Sabhan prior to the attack. The helicopters passed once, firing on the vehicle, and then circled back around to retrieve the body so they could make a positive identification, according to an official.
The attack in Mombasa took place on Nov 28, 2002 and involved a suicide bomber that blew up the lobby of the Israeli-owned Paraise hotel. On the same day, the attackers unsuccessfully attempted to shoot down an Israeli-owned Boeing 757 civilian jetliner run by Arkia. They fired surface-to-air missiles but missed.
Nabhan's group Somali, Al- Shabaab, has links to Al Qaeda.