The Air-Strikes Continue "One Al-Qa'ida Leader Down?"

U.S. air-strike on al-Qa'ida targets in southern Somalia continued last night as a Somali government official confirmed that a senior al-Qa'ida suspect wanted for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania was killed in Monday's attack.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists who has evaded capture for eight years, was killed in the U.S. air-strike early on Monday morning local time, according to a U.S. intelligence report passed on to the Somali authorities. He was allegedly harboured by the Council of Islamic Courts movement that had challenged Somalia's Ethiopian-backed government for power.

Note:Those Claims of a Al-Qa'ida leader killed have since been dismissed as being false, by the U.S. intelligence, they really don't kow who they have killed.

On Tuesday, U.S. helicopter gunships attacked suspected al-Qa'ida fighters in the south, a day after U.S. forces staged airstrikes in the first offensive in the African country since 18 U.S. soldiers were killed there in 1993.

In Washington, an intelligence official said the U.S. forces killed five to 10 people in the attack on a target in southern Somalia believed to be associated with al-Qa'ida. However, a Somali MP said at least 31 civilians, including a newlywed couple, had been killed in the strikes.