Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Outside the Air Locker: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

"I have received a report from the American side chronicling the targets and list of damage," Abdirizak Hassan, the Somali president's chief of staff said. "One of the items they were claiming was that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is dead."
  • planned the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 225 people.
  • suspected of planning the car bombing of a beach resort in Kenya and the near simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in 2002. Ten Kenyans and three Israelis were killed in the blast at the hotel, 12 miles north of Mombasa. The missiles missed the airliner.