06:52 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nKenyan leaders have welcomed the killing in Pakistan of Osama Bin Laden, the man behind the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi.<\/p>\n
President Mwai Kibaki said it brought justice for the Kenyan victims of al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n
Some 224 people, mostly Kenyans, were killed in the simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n
Kenyan security services are now on high alert in case of revenge attacks.<\/p>\n
The most senior official in Kenya’s internal security ministry, Francis Kimemia, told the BBC that the US should also target al-Qaeda cells in East Africa.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Trial ‘would have been better’<\/span><\/p>\nKenya’s prime minister was among those hailing Bin Laden’s death.<\/p>\n
“Osama’s death can only be positive for Kenya, but we need to have a stable government in Somalia,” Raila Odinga told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
“The loss of its [al-Qaeda’s] leader may first upset the movement but then it will regroup and continue.”<\/p>\n
Douglas Sidialo, chairman of Kenya’s 1998 US Embassy Bomb Victims’ Association, who lost his sight in the attack, said Bin Laden’s death was “a reason for celebration”.<\/p>\n
However, he said he would have preferred him to have been captured alive and put on trial to answer for his crimes.<\/p>\n
Bin Laden lived in neighbouring Sudan from 1992-6 but authorities in Khartoum have not yet commented.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s James Copnall, in Khartoum, says Sudanese authorities are caught between trying to improve relations with the US and a domestic constituency which has some support for Bin Laden and even has fond memories of him.<\/p>\n
Osama Bin Laden was killed by US forces in a ground operation in outside the Pakistan capital Islamabad, after the US received intelligence on his whereabouts.<\/p>\n
US President Barack Obama said US forces had taken possession of his body.<\/p>\n
Bin Laden was accused of masterminding a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.<\/p>\n
He was top of the US’ “most wanted” list.<\/p>\n
The US has put its embassies around the world on alert, warning Americans of the possibility of al-Qaeda reprisal attacks for Bin Laden’s killing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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