Top al-Qaida suspect 'killed in US airstrike'

A Somali official said today that an al-Qaida suspect who planned the 1998 US Embassy bombings was killed in airstrike.

A senior al-Qaida suspect wanted for the US embassy bombings in East Africa has been killed in a US airstrike in Somalia, a government official said today, quoting the Americans.

“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.”