16 Sep 2009
Somalia's most powerful militant group, al-Shabaab, has vowed to take revenge from the government over the killing of al-Qaeda's point man in the country.

Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raghe expressed outrage over the murder of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and his colleague by the US Special Forces in South Somalia, Press TV correspondent reported.

On Monday, US Special Forces in four helicopters struck a convoy carrying Nabhan and nine other al-Qaeda members near southwestern Somali port town of Barawe about 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu.

Nabhan is currently being wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel that killed 15 people and a failed missile attack on an Israeli airliner departing from Kenya's Mombassa airport in 2002.

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