A US air strike on Somalia three days ago killed up to 10 al-Qaeda-affiliated "terrorists", but three of the most wanted suspects survived, a US official said today.
"We are still in pursuit. We and the Ethiopians and everyone else wants to interdict terrorists," said the official.
On Monday, the United States hit a village in south Somalia in an attempt to destroy an al-Qaeda cell accused of bombing two US embassies in 1998 and an Israeli-owned hotel in 2002.
The US official said between eight to 10 "al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorists" were killed in Monday's attack. "There were a number of terrorist targets that were killed in that operation," he added.
Previous unconfirmed media reports suggested one of Washington's three most-wanted al-Qaeda suspects - Comorian Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Sudanese Abu Talha al-Sudani and Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan - was killed.