September 14, 2009

Top Wanted al Qaeda Terrorist Killed in Somalia

Here's the FBI's page on Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. He's wanted in connection with -- well, pretty much all of al Qaeda's activities in subsaharan Africa. He's also a key link between al Qaeda and the al Shabaab being both an al Qaeda operative and al Shabaab commander.

Or, make that was:

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and another person are thought to have been killed in the southern town of Barawe during a raid by what was originally reported to be French commandos; the raid is now said to have been carried out by US Special Forces.

Nabhan fires a rifle. Image by Nick Grace. Click to view.

Witnesses said foreign troops swept into the town on helicopters, fired missiles from an attack helicopter, killed Nabhan and another terrorist, and captured two others after wounding them, Mareeg reported. Nabhan's body was recovered, ABC News later reported.

America, F*ck Yeah!

More at Long War Journal.

I may have more on this later as I know of some Barawe centered resources, but something else is breaking. This one a little closer to home and to The Jawa Report.....

UPDATE: Looks like me and Newbie were blogging at the same time.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 03:12 PM | |