For some reason this story has not yet made the news in the U.S.:
On Monday, March 3, the U.S. Navy fired a Tomahawk missile at a house in Somalia where they claimed an al Qaeda member, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted for questioning by the FBI for involvement in the African embassy bombings in 1998, was hiding out.
CNN reported that 6 people, 3 women and 3 children, were killed and another 20 were injured. Two houses were destroyed.
Now the Daily Nation out of Nairobi, Kenya, is reporting that Nabhan was not at the site at the time of the attack:
A US missile strike against the Somali town of Dobley may have missed its target – Kenyan terror suspect Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. …
The Tomahawk missile fired from the sea may have hit when the suspect, born in 1968 in Mombasa, had already left the location, the sources added.
But the police are not ruling out that Mr Nabhan may be among the 20 people wounded in the attack.
Mr Nabhan is a close ally of another wanted terrorist suspect Harun Fazul, and are believed to be always together.
Other sources close to Mr Nabhan said they did not believe he was killed. “I think it’s just propaganda to try and find out where he actually is,†said one source.
The current war in Somalia, a greater humanitarian catastrophe than even the crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan, was started by the United States back in December, 2006, in the name of catching 3 al Qaeda suspects.
