Mogadishu - Somali police on Saturday (6/11/2011), said that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the leaders of Al Qaeda's most wanted in Africa, have been killed in the capital of the country "Horn of Africa" was earlier this week."We made sure he had ditewaskan by our police at a checkpoint this week," said Halima Aden, a senior national police official, told Reuters in Mogadishu.
Mohammed, according to Aden, was shot at a checkpoint in a shootout with police.
"He has a fake South African passport and other documents of course. After a thorough investigation, we make sure it was him, and then we bury his remains," said Aden.
Mohammed's reputed to be the leader of Al Qaeda in east Africa and operating in Somalia, which has been without a government since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
The United States has offered a reward of 5 million U.S. dollars for information that could result in the arrest of the Comoros, who speaks five languages and said to be a hero impersonation, forgery and bomb-making. He allegedly played a major role in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in 1996 in Nairobi and Dar es-Salaam, which killed 240 people.
"He was killed on Tuesday night in the southern outskirts of the city of Mogadishu at a police checkpoint Ex-Control. A gunman others have been riding in a vehicle with four wheels when it accidentally drove into the checkpoint," said Aden.
"We have a photograph and, thus, we double-check with a matching face. He has thousands of dollars. He also has a laptop and an AK-47 has been modified," he added.
Kenyan anti-terrorism police said they were told about Mohammed's murder by U.S. sources.
"We received intelligence information from the U.S. Embassy that he (Mohammed) had died. We ourselves do not have evidence of his death," said Chief of Police Anti-terrorist Unit Kamwende Nicholas Kenya, told Reuters in Nairobi.
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