[ 2011-06-11 ]

Al-Qaeda's E. Africa chief killed: Kenya police
NAIROBI (AFP) - The presumed head of Al-Qaeda in
east Africa, Comoros-born Fazul Abdullah Muhammad,
was killed Wednesday in Mogadishu, Kenya's police
chief said on Saturday, confirming a report from
Somali Islamist Shebab rebels.

"We have received that communication from
authorities in Somalia. We have been told that
there were two terrorists who were killed in
Somalia on Wednesday last week," Kenyan Police
Commissioner Mathew Iteere told AFP on Saturday.

Iteere said the identity of one of the two had
"been given as Fazul Muhammad ... That is what we
have been told by our counterparts in Somalia,"
Iteere said.

"One of the men that was killed near Mogadishu was
Fazul Abdullah, may Allah bless his soul. He is
not dead as thousands like him are still in the
fight against the enemy of Allah," a senior Al
Shebab commander had earlier told AFP on condition
of anonymity.

Source - AFP

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