There is more than a hint of poetic justice that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who masterminded the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, met his end in a shootout in Mogadishu, Somalia, according to the Telegraph (U.K.).
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was gunned down [at midnight on Tuesday] by Somali government troops, after he refused to stop at a roadblock in the capital Mogadishu last week.
Mrs Clinton said it was a "just end" for the man accused of bomb attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania which killed 224 people in 1998.
The 38-year-old Comoran's death is also seen as a rare victory for the Western-backed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, which is fighting al-Shebab Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda for control of the east African country.
On Friday, the organisation claimed the life of Somalia's Interior Minister in a suicide bombing said to have been carried out by his own niece, who had allegedly joined al-Shebab. The suicide attack was the third in Mogadishu in less than two weeks....
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