DAR AL ISLAM-SOMALIA: JIHADISTS THAT BOMBED OUR EMBASSY IN 1998 ARE HIDING IN THE KISMAYO STRONGHOLD...

US Embassy bombing suspects 'in Islamic stronghold'
31/12/2006 - 12:30:19

Somalia's prime minister said today the suspects in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa are sheltering in the stronghold of his country's militant Islamic movement.

"We are hunting those known to be responsible for the terrorist bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998," Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said.

"If we capture them alive we will hand them over to the US."

The three men - Comorian Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Abu Taha al-Sudani, a Sudanese - are al-Qaida suspects and are under US indictment for the 1998 bombings of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed hundreds of people.

"We know they are in Kismayo,"

Gedi said. "We would like to capture or kill these guys at any cost. They are the root of the problem."Gedi said he had spoken today to the US ambassador in Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, about ensuring the Kenyan border with Somalia is sealed to prevent the three escaping.

"We will get them," he said.


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