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Somalia, blitz of four U.S. helicopters shot dead a terrorist leader

The Kenyan Saleh Ali Nabhan was accused of the attack
Paradise hotel in Mombasa




from our correspondent Anna Guaita
NEW YORK (Sept. 14) - Just hours after President Barack Obama had given the its "green", four U.S. helicopters attacked Somalia in a convoy of suspected terrorists. The special teams have been concentrating fire on an armored car, whose occupants were killed. A U.S. helicopter went down to the ground, and picked the bodies, and soon after it was confirmed that the target to which the mission was intended was hit: the special teams have killed one of the most dangerous terrorists and sophisticated, the 28 year old Kenyan Ali Saleh Nabhan.

The man was accused of having planned the attack in November 2002 against the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa in 2002, in which 15 people were killed, two of them children of twelve years. That same day, the terrorist group of which Ali Nabhan was one of the leaders, al-Shabah, had also tried to kill Israeli tourists charter a plane, with two-to-air missiles: missiles missed the plane by a hair, carrying 160 people on board.

Nabah Ali was also suspected of having participated in attacks on two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 which killed 223 people and injured 4000.

The operation in Somalia took place on Monday afternoon. Nabah Ali was under surveillance by U.S. satellites for some time. They knew the routes and habits. Responsible for a training camp for would-be terrorists, the twenty-eight Kenyan moved always accompanied by other militants, on board an armored car. Yesterday, the four helicopters U.S. has risen in flight from a ship that cruised along the coast, headed for a village in the district of Barawa, about 250 km south of Mogadishu. The mission was confirmed by officials of the Somali government.

United States and other Western countries have often expressed concern that continued instability in Somalia could trsformare the country into a haven for Al-Qaeda and other groups simoatizzanti, as happened with Afghanistan during the Taliban government in the years nineties.