U.S. helicopters launched an attack on a car carrying members of the Young Mujahideen Movement in the village of southern Somalia, killing some people who were inside one of them leaders of al Qaeda in Somalia.
A U.S. official in Washington, requesting anonymity: “The dead man was Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan requested under investigation in the attack on a hotel in Mombasa and attempting to overthrow the Zionist aircraft during take-off from the city’s airport, the year 2002.”
The stations “ABC News and Fox News”, citing U.S. officials “that Nabhan was killed when a U.S. helicopter fired at least fire on the convoy carrying al Qaeda suspects in southern Somalia on Monday,” according to Agence France-Presse.
The U.S. official said on ABC’s “ABC”: “The vessel of the U.S. Navy was in the neighborhood to follow up the situation and provide support in case of necessity”, as mentioned television, “ABC” that the body of Saleh Nabhan is now in the possession of U.S. forces.
One of the officials explained that a number of elements of the plane landed on board, and took with them the body believed to be the Nabhan, in order to verify his identity.
He noted that the air raid came after information to U.S. forces that Nabhan is in the region, pointing out that U.S. troops have been monitoring the situation for several days before the raid.
According to farmers in the town, “Barwa” Somalia, where the raid took place, that most of the helicopter involved in the targeting of a car and those on board, and at least two were killed in the attack.
The witnesses said that some of the helicopters landed and pulled a number of wounded and dead out of the vehicle and took them with them.
The Minister of Disarmament in Somalia’s interim government, Ali Mohamed Farhan, to network, “CNN” of a U.S. air strike, and that the attack took place in the town of Barwa south of the country.
And the region obtained by the process in Somalia under the control of the Mujahideen Youth Movement who are working since last May to bring down the transitional government led by Sheikh Sharif Ahme
