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12 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 13:31 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton pledged justice for victims of terror attacks as she visited a memorial at the new US embassy in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The visit comes a day after news that al-Qaeda militant Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was shot in Somalia.<\/p>\n

He was suspected of playing a key role in the 1998 bombings that destroyed the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, in which 224 people were killed.<\/p>\n

Somalia’s president has said his forces were defeating al-Qaeda in the country.<\/p>\n

“We have overpowered al-Qaeda and al-Shabab in Somalia,” President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said, referring to the Islamist militant group which controls much of the south of the country.<\/p>\n

He described the death of Mr Mohammed, who had been one of the most wanted man in Africa, as a “major setback” to both groups.<\/p>\n

Mr Mohammed is reported to have run al-Qaeda in east Africa from his base in southern Somalia, where he hid for more than a decade after being accused of playing a lead role in the US embassy attacks in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n

‘Justice served’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mrs Clinton placed flowers at a memorial for the dead on the grounds of the new embassy in Dar es Salaam. She said that the US had not forgotten those who died.<\/p>\n

“I know nothing can replace those who have been taken from us by such senseless violence,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Fazul Abdullah Mohammed<\/h2>\n