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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday told the loved ones of Tanzanians killed in the 1998 US embassy bombing that justice was served with the death of the plot's mastermind.
The chief US diplomat, who had earlier called the killing of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa?s most wanted man, a "significant blow" to Al- Qaeda, placed flowers at a memorial for the dead on the grounds of the new embassy here on the second leg of her Africa tour.
"I know that there are those of you here today who were serving in the embassy on that awful occasion," Clinton said solemnly to those gathered.
"Some of you lost your friends and loved ones, and all Americans grieved with you then and we have not forgotten your losses. We have not forgotten our pledge to seek justice against those who would commit such atrocities," she said.
Fazul, Al-Qaeda's presumed head in east Africa, wanted for blowing up the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, died in a shootout in the Somali capital in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.
Clinton recalled that US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan last month before welcoming Saturday's news of the death of Fazul's death.
"I know nothing can replace those who have been taken from us by such senseless violence. But I know justice was served and I hope that that gives you some measure of comfort," Clinton said.
Fazul, 38, was gunned down at a roadblock in Mogadishu after he took a wrong turning.
He is thought to have planned the massive truck bombings at the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam that killed 224 people in 1998 and had a $5 million bounty on his head.
Eleven Tanzanians were killed in Dar es-Salaam and no Americans. In Nairobi, 212 people were killed in all, including 12 Americans.
Fazul's killing comes after that of Al-Qaeda's number one Osama bin Laden in May and that of another commander, the Pakistani Ilyas Kashmiri, thought to have died in a US drone stike earlier this month.
Some Nairobi bombing survivors expressed relief at Fazul's death; other said their lives had already been ruined and it would not change anything.
"To me the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed gives peace to my soul," Lucy Anyango Aringo, who was wounded in the attack, told the Sunday Nation newspaper.
"Although his death may be painful to someone close to him, to me it provides a closure of sorts," she said.
"The loss we suffered as a family can never be compensated, but it is a relief to hear those who planned the killings have been killed," Mercy Mwaura who lost her sister in the Nairobi bombing told AFP.
The chief US diplomat, who had earlier called the killing of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa?s most wanted man, a "significant blow" to Al- Qaeda, placed flowers at a memorial for the dead on the grounds of the new embassy here on the second leg of her Africa tour.
"I know that there are those of you here today who were serving in the embassy on that awful occasion," Clinton said solemnly to those gathered.
"Some of you lost your friends and loved ones, and all Americans grieved with you then and we have not forgotten your losses. We have not forgotten our pledge to seek justice against those who would commit such atrocities," she said.
Fazul, Al-Qaeda's presumed head in east Africa, wanted for blowing up the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, died in a shootout in the Somali capital in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.
Clinton recalled that US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan last month before welcoming Saturday's news of the death of Fazul's death.
"I know nothing can replace those who have been taken from us by such senseless violence. But I know justice was served and I hope that that gives you some measure of comfort," Clinton said.
Fazul, 38, was gunned down at a roadblock in Mogadishu after he took a wrong turning.
He is thought to have planned the massive truck bombings at the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam that killed 224 people in 1998 and had a $5 million bounty on his head.
Eleven Tanzanians were killed in Dar es-Salaam and no Americans. In Nairobi, 212 people were killed in all, including 12 Americans.
Fazul's killing comes after that of Al-Qaeda's number one Osama bin Laden in May and that of another commander, the Pakistani Ilyas Kashmiri, thought to have died in a US drone stike earlier this month.
Some Nairobi bombing survivors expressed relief at Fazul's death; other said their lives had already been ruined and it would not change anything.
"To me the death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed gives peace to my soul," Lucy Anyango Aringo, who was wounded in the attack, told the Sunday Nation newspaper.
"Although his death may be painful to someone close to him, to me it provides a closure of sorts," she said.
"The loss we suffered as a family can never be compensated, but it is a relief to hear those who planned the killings have been killed," Mercy Mwaura who lost her sister in the Nairobi bombing told AFP.
