Got One In Pakistan

A terrorist who was implicated in the 1998 embassy bombing in Kenya was apparently killed in a Pakistani airstrike, along with several cohorts.

Pakistani forces killed an Egyptian al-Qaida terrorist wanted by the United States over the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, a Cabinet minister said Thursday.

Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah, 45, was killed late Wednesday in a Pakistani military raid led by helicopter gunships on a hideout in the remote North Waziristan village of Naghar Kalai, near the Afghan border, the minister said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Another senior Pakistani intelligence official said military reports from the field indicated that Atwah had been killed in the attack, in which at least six other militants and two children were believed killed. The intelligence official also declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the case.