Idwal Robling, Welsh Olympic footballer and broadcaster died he was , 84.

James Idwal Robling was a Welsh sports commentator, who worked for the BBC in Wales for almost 40 years died he was , 84..

(1927 – 9 June 2011)

Robling was born in Ynyshir in the Rhondda Valley, where he attended the local grammar school. His education was interrupted by the Second World War, and upon being called up was accepted for service in the Royal Navy. However, he was selected by ballot to become a Bevin Boy so instead of going to the Navy he was conscripted to work in the coal mines. After the war, he resumed his education and qualified as a teacher after attending Caerleon College and Loughborough University, although instead of teaching he decided on a different career and became a manager at the Lovell's sweet factory in Newport, Monmouthshire.
Robling was an outstanding amateur footballer, and was part of the Great Britain squad for the 1952 Summer Olympic Games at Helsinki. He won 13 caps as an amateur international for Wales, and captained the team on one occasion. He also played for "Lovell's Athletic", his company's works team which played at a high level in the amateur Southern League. As his playing career wound down he became involved in sports reporting, and in the 1960s he worked part-time for both BBC Wales Radio as a sports commentator as well as writing reports for The Times, but he was still working as a sales manager in 1969, when he won the BBC competition to find an extra person for the BBC's 1970 World Cup commentary team.^[2] Ten thousand people entered, and Robling's rivals in the final six included Ed Stewart, Ian St John and Gerry Harrison. In the final round of judging Robling was tied with Ian St John, and the casting vote went to the then England football manager Sir Alf Ramsey. It was sometimes mischievously said that the reason Robling won was because Ramsey would never consider voting for a Scotsman.
After his victory Robling joined the BBC football Match of the Day team, covering matches in the South and West of England area during a short-lived experiment at covering regional matches, and did indeed go to the 1970 World Cup, commentating on a number of first round games although none of them were broadcast live in the UK. At the start of the 1970/71 season he replaced Wally Barnes as the regular TV football reporter and commentator on BBC Wales, a role he held for the next sixteen seasons, as well as occasionally covering Boxing and Rugby League
In those days of limited football coverage he was largely restricted to the occasional Match of the Day opt-out, Welsh Cup game or international friendly, but Cardiff City and Wrexham's exploits in the European Cup Winners Cup in the 1970s saw him commentate on some memorable European games against the likes of Real Madrid, Hadjuk Split and Anderlecht. He commentated on many Welsh internationals, including Wales' home defeat in the 1978 World Cup Qualifier against Scotland when a controversial refereeing decision saw the Scots being given a late penalty. In the 1976 European Championship Qualifier he had seen Wales become the first team in 30 years to beat Hungary in the Nep stadium, declaring almost incredulously as John Mahoney scored the second goal, "and it's 2-0 to Wales...IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!" (probably his most remembered line of commentary for Welsh fans), and in his final major international he commentated on Mark Hughes' “wondergoal” in a 3-0 win in the 1986 World Cup Qualifier against Spain. It was probably fitting that he lived to see Swansea City win promotion to the Premier League of English football in the spring of 2011, as they started their previous top-flight campaign with an emphatic 5-1 victory over Leeds Utd on the opening day of the 1981-82 First Division season, a game covered by Robling and which gave him a rare top-billing on the network Match of the Day.
With his 60th birthday approaching Robling retired from commentating at the end of the 1984/85 season but he continued covering football as a reporter with a local news agency. He returned to the BBC in an off-screen role as a producer on the Scrum V and Sport Wales programmes, and was still working there until a few months before his death.
He died in Newport, aged 84, following a short illness. He was married with a son and two daughters.

 

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Ignazio Vella, American artisanal cheesemaker and businessman, died after a long illness he was , 82.

Ignazio A. "Ig" Vella was an American businessman and cheese maker who served on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors  died after a long illness he was , 82..

(July 13, 1928—June 9, 2011)

Life, education, and career

Vella was born on July 13, 1928 to Gaetano "Tom" Vella and Zolita (Clerici) Vella of Sonoma, California.^[2]
He attended Sonoma Valley High School,^[1] the San Rafael Military Academy, and Air Force Officer Candidate School. In 1950, he graduated magna cum laude from Santa Clara University with bachelor's degree in history.^[2] His father owned Vella Cheese Company, Inc. in California and the Rogue Creamery in Oregon, which he turned over to his children.^[4][5] Ig took control of both companies and served as their general manager and chief executive officer. He sold Rogue Creamery in 2002.
In addition, Vella served three terms (twelve years) on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, where he represented the First District.^[1] He also served on the Sonoma City Planning Commission and as manager of the Sonoma County Fair. During the 1970s, he served as president of the Association of Bay Area Governments.^[3]
In 2006, Vella was honored by the City of Sonoma, which named the West Napa Street bridge over Sonoma Creek after him.^[1] In the same year, the American Cheese Society recognized Vella with a Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to artisan cheese.^[2]
After a prolonged illness, Vella died at his home in Sonoma, aged 83.^[3]

 

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Anatole Abragam,, French physicist died he was 96.

Anatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance.^[3] Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.

(December 15, 1914 – June 8, 2011)

After being educated at the University of Paris, (1933–1936), he served in the Second World War. After the war, he resumed his studies at the École Supérieure d'Électricité and subsequently obtained his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1950 under the supervision of Maurice Pryce. In 1976, he was made an Honorary Fellow of both Merton, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges, Oxford.^[4]
From 1960 to 1985, he worked as a professor at the Collège de France.^[5] He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1982. Abragam was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.^[6]

Books

• Abragam, Anatole (1961). The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism. Clarendon Press. p. 599. OCLC 242700.
• Abragam A & Bleaney B. Electron paramagnetic resonance of transitionions. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1970.^[7]
• Abragam, Anatole (1989). Time Reversal, an autobiography. Oxford University Press. OCLC 18989324. Worth reading for insight into science, scientific politics, and the human condition—similar in this respect to molecular biologist Francois Jacob's autobiography The Statue Within (Basic Books, 1988).

 

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Clara Luper, American civil rights activist, died after a long illness she was , 88

Clara Shepard Luper (born Clara Mae Shepard was a civic leader, retired schoolteacher, and a pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement died after a long illness she was , 88. She is best known for her leadership role in the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-in Movement, as she, her young son and daughter, and numerous young members of the NAACP Youth Council successfully conducted nonviolent sit-in protests of downtown drugstore lunch-counters which overturned their policies of segregation. The Clara Luper Corridor is a streetscape and civic beautification project from the Oklahoma Capitol area east to northeast Oklahoma City and was announced by Governor Brad Henry.
Luper continued desegregating hundreds of establishments in Oklahoma, and was active on the national level during the 1960s movements.

(May 3, 1923 – June 8, 2011)

Early years

Clara Shepard Luper was born in 1923 in rural Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. Her father, Ezell Shepard, was a World War I veteran and laborer. Her mother, Isabell Shepard, worked as a laundress. Young Clara was raised in Hoffman, Oklahoma. She went to high school in the all-black town of Grayson, Oklahoma, and attended college at Langston University where, in 1944, she received a B.A. in mathematics with a minor in history. In 1950, Luper was one of the group of black students who integrated the University of Oklahoma. She received an M.A. in History Education from the university in 1951.^[2]

NAACP Youth Council and the start of the 1958 Oklahoma City Movement

In 1957, as Luper worked as a history teacher at Dunjee High School east of Oklahoma City, she became the advisor for the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council. At this time she was deeply influenced by the success of Martin Luther King, Jr and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With the Youth Council, she wrote and staged a play entitled Brother President about King’s philosophy of nonviolence. In 1958, she was invited to bring the Oklahoma City Youth Council to perform Brother President for the NAACP in New York City.
The trip to and from New York was a formative experience for Youth Council members. On their return to Oklahoma the Youth Council voted to initiate a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience to end segregation in Oklahoma City.
From 1958 to 1964 Luper mentored the members of the NAACP Youth Council during its campaign to end the segregation of public accommodations through sit-ins, protests, and boycotts.

Oklahoma City Sit-ins and related activism

On Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 1958, Luper and a group of Youth Council members entered the segregated Katz drugstore in downtown Oklahoma City. They took seats, and asked to be served. Two days later, Katz corporate management in Kansas City desegregated its lunch counters in three states.
This successful August, 1958 sit-in led by Luper, her eight-year old daughter who suggested the action, and the rest of the children in the NAACP Youth Council, at the Katz Drug Store occurred a year and a half before the February 1, 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins.
From 1958 to 1964 Clara Luper was a major leader of the fight to end segregation in Oklahoma. She led the campaigns to gain equal banking rights, employment opportunities, open housing, and voting rights. Along with the NAACP Youth Council, she personally integrated hundreds of restaurants, cafes, theaters, hotels, and churches, including such notable Oklahoma City establishments as the Split-T drive-in and the Skirvin Hotel. She served on Governor J. Howard Edmondson’s Committee on Human Relations.

National Civil Rights Activism

Luper was a prominent figure in the national civil rights movement. She was active in the NAACP, and attended the association’s annual conference every year with the Oklahoma City Youth Council. She took part in the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. She also took part in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches where she received a deep cut in her leg on "Bloody Sunday" when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with tear gas and billy clubs.
After 1964 Luper remained an important community figure as an activist, educator, and stalwart NAACP supporter. In these years, she expanded the range of her concerns to include advocacy for educational, economic, and political equality. In 1968, she was one of a handful of African American teachers hired to teach at Oklahoma City's Northwest Classen High School as part of the highly controversial court ordered school desegregation plan implemented that year. She was later reassigned to John Marshall High School (Oklahoma) where she continued to teach history and media studies.

Oklahoma City Sanitation Workers Strike

In August 1969, Luper was the spokesperson for striking sanitation workers in Oklahoma City. The sanitation workers sought a shorter work week, pay raises, and new grievance procedures. The Oklahoma City sanitation strike began on August 19 and ended on November 7, 1969.

Later years

In 1972 Clara Luper ran unsuccessfully for election to the United States Senate. When asked by the press if she, a black woman, could represent white people, she responded: “Of course, I can represent white people, black people, red people, yellow people, brown people, and polka dot people. You see, I have lived long enough to know that people are people.”
The Clara Luper Corridor, a multi-million dollar two mile streetscape project connecting the Oklahoma State Capitol complex with the historically African-American area of Northeast Oklahoma City, began construction in 2005. It was named to commemorate her civil rights legacy.
Luper received hundreds of awards, and was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Afro-American Hall of Fame, among others.
The Clara Luper Scholarship, a full scholarship given by Oklahoma City University, has been awarded to 30-45 students every year. The scholarship was geared towards students who were minorities, came from underserved high schools, or came from households with lower income.

Writings

Clara Luper’s book Behold The Walls (1979) is an acclaimed first-hand account of the campaign for civil rights in Oklahoma City during the 1960s.

 

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(The Long Good Friday, Ruby) died he was , 83.

John Mackenzie  known as "Frenzy Mackenzie", was a British film director died he was , 83.. Born in Edinburgh, he worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent director himself. He has been described by critics as "a solid and reliable filmmaker with... frequent flairs of brilliance", but despite tackling such topics as the Hiberno-British struggle, or the assassination of John F. Kennedy he was generally not thought of as a political filmmaker. Rather, Mackenzie focused more frequently on narrative, character and plot.

(22 May 1928 – 8 June 2011)

Early life

Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22 May 1928 and educated at Holy Cross Academy.^[2] He studied History at Edinburgh University.^[2] He studied drama and joined Edinburgh's Gateway Theatre Company.^[2] He worked as a teacher and moved to London in 1960.^[2]

Career

Early career

Mackenzie came at a relatively young age into the formative world of British cinema in the 1960s, with a ready interest in storytelling and narrative devices. Fortuitously for his career, Mackenzie began his career proper with the English director Ken Loach, acting as the latter's assistant director on such works as Up the Junction (1965) and Cathy Come Home (1966). This training allowed Mackenzie to begin a move into directing himself, as well as teaching him the skills of working on location with non-professional, local actors to a tight budget and schedule.

Directing, film and television

Initially, Mackenzie worked on television plays, following his apprenticeship with Loach. During this period he directed episodes of The Jazz Age and ITV Saturday Night Theatre. His first film was the television drama There Is Also Tomorrow (1969), followed by two feature films One Brief Summer (1970) and Unman, Wittering and Zigo, an adaptation of Giles Cooper's radio play (1971). Mackenzie still largely worked for television, aside from the independent production Made (1972), until in 1979 he directed the highly acclaimed A Sense of Freedom, a BAFTA-nominated film (released on television in the USA in 1985). Freedom was surpassed, however, by Mackenzie's next film, the gangster piece The Long Good Friday, generally accepted as his masterpiece.
The Long Good Friday, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, opened up opportunities to work in the United States. The Honorary Consul was adapted from Graham Greene's novel by Christopher Hampton. Also released as Beyond the Limit, the film re-united Mackenzie with Hoskins, as well as giving him the chance to direct Michael Caine and Richard Gere. Mackenzie's other films of this period include The Innocent (1985) and The Fourth Protocol (1987).
The greatest success that Mackenzie enjoyed in his American period was Ruby (1992), a biopic of Jack Ruby, the Texan nightclub owner who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby starred Academy Award-nominated Danny Aiello and Twin Peaks actor Sherilyn Fenn. Another film of this period was The Last of the Finest, a UK-USA thriller starring Brian Dennehy. Despite these successes, however, Mackenzie's time in America was an artistic disappointment, and he returned to the UK in 1993.
Mackenzie later directed films such as Deadly Voyage (1996) and When the Sky Falls (2000).

Death

Mackenzie died on June 8, 2011 at the age of 83.^[1] He is survived by his three daughters by Wendy Marshall, whom he married in 1956 and whom predeceased him.^[2]

Filmography

As Assistant Director

• Up the Junction: "The Wednesday Play", directed by Ken Loach
• Cathy Come Home, directed by Loach

As Director: Film

One Brief Summer (1969) Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971) Made (1972) A Sense of Freedom (1979) The Long Good Friday (1980) The Honorary Consul, also released as Beyond the Limit (1983)

The Innocent (1985) The Fourth Protocol (1987) The Last of the Finest, also released as Blue Heat and Street Legal (1990) Ruby (1992) When the Sky Falls (2000) Quicksand (2003)

As Director: Television

The Cheviot, The Stag, and the Black Black Oil BBC (1973) Shutdown BBC (1974) Just Another Saturday Granada Television (1975) Double Dare (BBC 1976) A Passage to England BBC (1976) Red Shift BBC (1977)

Just a Boys' Game BBC (1985) Act of Vengeance HBO (1986) Voyage, also broadcast as Cruise of Fear USA (1993) The Infiltrator, also broadcast as In Hitler's Shadow HBO (1995) Deadly Voyage HBO (1996) Looking After Jo (1998) Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within Showtime (1998)

 

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Paul Massie, Canadian BAFTA-winning actor and theater professor died he was , 78.

Paul Massie was a Canadian actor and academic died he was , 78.. Massie won a BAFTA Award in 1958 for "most promising newcomer" for his role in the film, Orders to Kill in which he portrayed an American bomber pilot in Nazi-occupied France. He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s. He remained on faculty until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1996.



(July 7, 1932 - June 8, 2011)

Massie was born Arthur Masse in St. Catherine's, Ontario.^[1]
He appeared in Tony Hancock's The Rebel as a budding artist.
As a young actor, Massie received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' award for Most Promising Newcomer to Film, for his work in the 1958 film^[2] "Orders to Kill," directed by the acclaimed Anthony Asquith.
Also in 1958 he acted in Tennessee Williams' play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," at the Comedy Theatre in London, England with Kim Stanley and Leo McKern in the cast. Peter Hall was director.
This early success was followed hard on by a whirlwind of TV, film and stage offers around the world.
He played the characters of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the 1960 Hammer horror film The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll. Unusually, he played Jekyll in make-up as an old, unattractive, bearded man, and his villainous counterpart Hyde as his young, handsome self.
(1963) He acted in William Fairchild's play, "Breaking Point," at the Golders Green Hippodrome in Golders Green, London, England with John Gregson, Robert Beatty, and Robert Ayres in the cast. John Barron was director.
Later in his career, Massie shifted his focus to teaching, and became a revered member of the faculty at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, where he had often been an Guest Artist/Instructor over the years, first appearing in a 1966 production of Tartuffe.[1] He taught acting, scene study, voice production, clowning, directing and other subjects. He also directed numerous productions at USF, and became a beloved fixture in the theater community, known for his commanding presence and immense passion, as well as his personal kindness and care for students and colleagues alike. Numerous actors, directors and other theater professionals who trained under Massie credit his insights, drive and technique for their success.
Paul Massie died on June 8, 2011, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, at the age of 78.^[1] He had resided on the South Shore of Nova Scotia since his retirement from the University of South Florida in 1996.^[1]

 

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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed Comorian al-Qaeda terrorist, planned 1998 United States embassy bombings, died after he was shot he was , 38.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was a member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa as of November 2009.^[4] Mohammed was born in Moroni, Comoros Islands and had Kenyan as well as Comorian citizenship. He spoke French, Swahili, Arabic, English, and Comorian.


 (August 25, 1972, February 25, 1974, or December 25, 1974 – June 8, 2011)

Role in al-Qaeda

Mohammed and a number of others were under indictment^[6] in the United States for their alleged participation in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa. Mohammed was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists since its inception on October 10, 2001. The reward for finding Mohammed was US$5 million.^[5][7]
In Kenya, Mohammed was once the secretary of, and lived in the same house as, Wadih el-Hage. El-Hage was indicted with Mohammed,^[6] and has been convicted. A letter to el-Hage, thought to be from Mohammed, was exhibited at el-Hage's trial.^[8]
Mohammed spent time in Mogadishu planning a truck bombing against a United Nations establishment there, and was in the city on October 3, 1993, when Somali gunmen brought down two American helicopters and killed 18 U.S. special operations soldiers.^[9]

War on terror

Mohammed is suspected in Kenya of involvement in two attacks in Mombasa on November 26, 2002. One was the truck bombing of Paradise Hotel, in which 15 were killed. The other was the launch of two shoulder-fired missiles at an Israeli airliner on takeoff; the missiles missed and there were no casualties.^[10][11]
On May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that reports indicated that Mohammed was one of seven al-Qaeda members who were planning a terrorist action for the summer or fall of 2004.^[12] American Democrats^[who?] labeled the warning "suspicious" and said it was held solely to divert attention from President Bush's declining poll numbers and to push the failings of the 2003 invasion of Iraq off the front page.^[13] CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns, saying it seemed more like "election year" politics, than an actual threat. The New York Times pointed out that one day before the announcement, they had been told by the Department of Homeland Security that there were no current risks.^[13]
According to an FBI interrogation report, an associate of Mohammed confessed that the militant trained with al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.^[14] Ahmed Ghailani, also on that list, was captured in Pakistan a month later. Soon thereafter, several press reports, claiming UN and official US sources, described the participation of several al-Qaeda personnel, including Mohammed and Ghailani, in the acquisition and movement of diamonds in Liberia.^[15]
When the ferry MV Bukoba sank in Lake Victoria in 1996, taking al-Qaeda co-founder Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri with it, Mohammed was one of the individuals sent to the scene by al-Qaeda, attempting to verify that Abu Ubaidah was dead, and had not in fact defected.^[16]

Suspected involvement in Somali conflict

In early 2007, during the War in Somalia, Mohammed was thought to be in the border area near Ras Kamboni, along with remnants of the Islamic Courts Union. On January 8, 2007, a US Air Force AC-130 gunship targeted al-Qaeda in the area. It is likely he was one of the targets as The Pentagon has said the "target of the strike was the principal al-Qaeda leadership in the region."^[17][18][19] Somali government officials said that his death was confirmed in an intelligence report provided to Somali authorities by the United States.^[14] However, in an interview with the BBC, the US ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, denied that Mohammed had been killed in the airstrike, and stated that the search for the three al-Qaeda suspects continues.^[20] The gunship attack resulted in the deaths of at least 70 civilian nomads and many more injuries as they were searching for a water source at night.^[21] Mohammed's remains, if they are found, can be identified by aid of a DNA sample taken in Comoros.^[10]
One of Mohammed's wives and her children were captured trying to escape to Kenya from Somalia. They were arrested in Kiunga and brought to Nairobi for questioning.^[22] Before Mohammed's wife was deported back to Somalia by the Kenyan government a computer in her possession thought to have been Mohammed's was seized and was said to have "contained vital information on terrorism training and intelligence collection including spying".^[23] Mohammed is believed to "be very good with computers".^[5]
While it was never confirmed that Mohammed escaped from the fighting in Somalia or had even been there when the violence broke out, Madagascar's largest newspaper, Midi Madagasikara, reported in early February, 2007, that Mohammed was currently residing in the island nation. This is in contrast to the statement by Abdirizak Hassain, saying that Mohammed was killed in the Battle of Ras Kamboni by a U.S. airstrike. Quoting military and "other sources," the newspaper claimed he was in the city of Mahajanga. A partner of his from the Comoros currently resides on the island.^{[citation needed]}
On August 2, 2008, Mohammed supposedly escaped a police dragnet in Malindi, Kenya, but two of his aides were arrested. He was said to have been covertly taken into Kenya from Somalia a few days previously, seeking treatment for kidney problems. The police confiscated two of his passports and a laptop, among other belongings. The police operation took place several days before the 10th anniversary of the 1998 Embassy bombings.^[24][25]

Al-Qaeda top commander in East Africa and Al Shabaab top military commander

On November 11, 2009 Mohammed's consecration as commander took place in an open ceremony in the southern Somali city of Kismayo, according to a translation received by The Long War Journal of an article posted on Waaga Cusub, a pro-insurgency website, run by a Somali clan, the Hawiye. According to the website, he "delivered his longest speech delivered his longest speech [sic]".^[4] Referring to his appointment by Osama bin Laden and praising his predecessor, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, killed by US special forces in mid-September, Mohammed acknowledged his role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He promised that al-Qaeda and Shabaab would take the fight to neighboring countries. "Praise be to Allah," Mohammed said. "After Somalia we will proceed to Djibouti, Kenya, and Ethiopia."^[4]
After the July 2010 Kampala attacks in nearby Uganda, which targeted people watching screenings of the World Cup final, Shabaab's spiritual leader, Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr threatened to carry out further attacks on foreign soil, in particular in Burundi and Uganda, due to the presence of peacekeeping troops from these countries in Somalia. He named the group that perpetrated the attacks as the Saleh Ali Nabhan Brigade which was likely led or directed by Mohammed at the time.^[26]
Mohammed's role as Shabaab's military leader, as well as the involvement of other foreign al-Qaeda commanders in Somalia, was confirmed in a report compiled by the African Union Mission for Somalia, and published in The EastAfrican. A US intelligence operative, specializing in the al-Shabaab group, confirmed the information to a website specialized in reporting on the war on terror.^[27]

Death

Mohammed and a Kenyan extremist, now thought to be Musa Hussein (a.k.a. Musa Sambayo), were driving in a car carrying $40,000 in United States Dollars, as well as medicine, telephones, laptops and a South African passport in the Afgooye corridor, northwest of Mogadishu on June 8, 2011. Musa Hussein was known to Mohammed as Abdullahi Dere and is believed to have been involved in funding operations for al-Shabaab.^[28] At 2:00 A.M. they failed to stop at a security checkpoint managed by the Somalian military (SNA). The SNA opened fire on the car, killing both Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and his accomplice.^[29]
Mohammed's death was confirmed by Somali and U.S. government officials and was characterized by the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "a significant blow to Al Qaeda, its extremist allies and its operations in East Africa."^[3

 

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