Somali forces kill US embassy blasts mastermind

The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who did not immediately realise they had killed the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said today.

The death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed – a man who topped the FBI’s most wanted list for nearly 13 years – is another major strike against the worldwide terror group which was headed by Osama bin Laden until his death last month.