Source: Al Qaeda Suspect Dies in U.S. Air Strike
GORANI: Welcome back to YOUR WORLD TODAY. You're with CNN International.</s>CLANCY: That's right. We're bringing you up to date on some of the top stories around the globe. All right. Let's take a look at Somalia. This is a new front, possibly, on the war on terror. A renewed front, more correctly. Somali government officials say a senior al Qaeda suspect is now dead after a U.S. air strike in Somalia on Sunday. U.S. officials haven't confirmed his death. All of it comes as Somalia's deputy prime minister says he wants U.S. troops to come in on the ground to help root out the extremists. Barbara Starr is monitoring the latest developments from neighboring Kenya that is also, in many ways, involved here. She joins us from Nairobi. Barbara, the latest from your end regarding this suspect. Is the U.S. saying anything?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, no, Jim, they are not. The U.S. administration is not acknowledging or not confirming that any al Qaeda suspects have actually been killed in that C-130 air strike, and they are only saying at this point that that was the only air strike. There certainly has been other military activity on the Kenya-Somali border, but the U.S. says -- it so far is not acknowledging it's responsible for any of it. What we know from here in Kenya is that Kenyan military has been patrolling up there with helicopters. Ethiopian forces are there, as well as some forces from the new government in Somalia. And there has been plenty of activity on that border north of here. So it is believed that some of the reports of air strikes may actually be due to helicopter activity from some of those forces. But as for the U.S., U.S. military officials say the Naval Armada, an aircraft carrier, and four U.S. Navy warships will stay in place off the coast of Somalia for some time ready to take down any targets of opportunity -- that's what they call them -- of any al Qaeda trying to flee, trying to get out of Somalia via the sea. The Kenyan military will keep the border it has with Somalia sealed to try and prevent anybody from escaping into this country. So the question, even as President Bush, Jim, begins to address the American people about Iraq, clearly is whether the U.S. military is getting involved in a new war -- a new front in the war on terror here in the Horn of Africa -- Jim.</s>CLANCY: Well, certainly, you know, this goes back to Tora Bora, all of these other areas where there was a hunt on for al Qaeda every time they slipped through. How much pressure is there, Barbara, to put in some people, Special Operations troops, whatever, on the ground there to determine, one, did they get the al Qaeda operatives, or are those al Qaeda operatives still in the area?</s>STARR: Well, you know, it's interesting. If it is proven that this man, also known as Farun Hazul (ph) is dead or the other al Qaeda operatives they were going after, it appears at this time that the U.S. would be the only one to be able to confirm that with eyes on the ground. If this C-130 strike was that precise, if they killed no civilians, as the U.S. claims that they did, that they did not kill any civilians and they got these people, that was a very precise strike. That's the kind of strike that requires a forward air controller on the ground, and that may mean, although we don't know, that the U.S. has put commandos on the ground in southern Somalia -- Jim.</s>CLANCY: All right. Barbara Starr there. Has been alongside U.S. military officials in Kenya. Everyone watching southern Somalia. Barbara, as always, our thanks to you.</s>GORANI: OK. Still ahead on YOUR WORLD TODAY, Apple's CEO says his product will revolutionize the market.</s>CLANCY: And why wouldn't he? It is a mobile phone, and it's also an Internet browser, and it's also, did we tell you, a music mayor. We'll have a look at the new iPhone coming up straight ahead.