Nairobi: The leaders of African countries where al-Qaeda has staged attacks, such as Kenya, Tanzania and Mali, have welcomed the killing by US forces in Pakistan of Osama Bin Laden. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said it brought justice for al-Qaeda’s victims.
Some 224 people, mostly Kenyans, were killed in the twin bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam in 1998.
Kenyan security services are now on high alert in case of revenge attacks.
Francis Kimemia, a senior official in Kenya’s internal security ministry, told the BBC that the US should also target al-Qaeda cells in East Africa.
The al-Shabab militant group, which controls much of southern Somalia, has close links to al-Qaeda and last year carried out a suicide bombing in Uganda.
In 2009 US forces killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top al-Qaeda operative accused of links to the 1998 embassy bombings, in a raid in Somalia.
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