By Tom Zeller Jr.
Tags: al qaeda, foreign affairs, military, somalia, terrorism
Updating the murky and chaotic story of American air strikes in Somalia, BBC News is reporting that an unnamed “top U.S. official” is now saying that none of the major al Qaeda targets in that country are thought to have been killed.
Somalis with close ties to al Qaeda, however, were killed, the official told the BBC.
Reuters, which appears to be quoting the same official, reported that Monday’s air strike killed eight to ten “terrorist targets,” but that United States was still hunting the three most wanted suspects, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The official also apparently denied that it had conducted any strikes after Monday.
The three primary targets — Fazul Abdullah Mohammed of the Comoros, Sudanese Abu Talha al-Sudani and Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan — are suspected of taking part in the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
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