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Roma,
September 26, 2009 –
Italian newspaper Il
Corriere della Sera has
some interesting news on the covert raid conducted by US Special Forces,
dubbed Celestial Balance, that targeted an al Qaeda leader in Southern
Somalia on Sept. 14th. According to a local stringer for the newspaper,
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was not killed but captured alive. Along with
Nabhan, American commandos apprehended Abu Mansur al Amriki, the
American convert to Islam who has become a commander in charge of
military training for Shabaab.
Amriki can
be seen in
Shabaab's latest propaganda videotape, released on Sunday, leading
the training of Shabaab fighters at the Abu Suleim camp.
Witnesses
in the village of Roboow told the Il
Corriere della Sera stringer
that both al Qaeda commanders were boarded on helicopters, then they
were probably transferred onto US Navy ships stationing at large off the
Somali coast. “Capturing the man sent by Osama to set up the Somali
insurgency would be a huge success” for the Americans, says the Italian
newspaper. But, as Il
Corriere repeatedly
points out, this news has not been confirmed.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/09/somali_al_qaeda_leaders_captur.php#ixzz0S7tGJe5w
Source: The
Long War, Sept 22, 2009
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