US drone strike killed Somali insurgent

Bilal al-Berjawi was a close associate of late al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.

Nairobi: Somali insurgents say that a US drone strike killed an al Qaeda official fighting alongside them in Somalia.

A statement from the insurgent al-Kataib media foundation late Saturday says that three missiles fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle hit Bilal al-Berjawi`s car on the outskirts of Mogadishu. Berjawi was a Lebanese and British citizen who grew up in West London.

The strike was confirmed by a US official in Washington. He asked for anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Berjawi was a close associate of late al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who directed the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Bureau Report