Top al-Qaida suspect ‘killed by US in Somalia’

A SENIOR al-Qaida suspect wanted for bombing American embassies in east Africa was killed in a US airstrike, a Somali official said yesterday.

If confirmed it would mean the end of an eight-year hunt for a top target of Washington’s war on terrorism.

In Washington, US government officials said they had no reason to believe that the suspect, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, had been killed.