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Top al-Qaeda suspect killed in Somalia

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Somali Islamists will avenge the killing by U.S. forces of a top al-Qaeda suspect in Somalia, a top al-Shabab commander has told the BBC. Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan is believed to have been killed in a U.S. military helicopter raid. American agents had been hunting Nabhan for years over attacks on a hotel and an Israeli airliner in Kenya in 2002. It is believed he fled to Somalia after the Mombasa attacks and was working with the al-Shabab group. Jason Margolis reports.

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• Profile: Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan