U.S.intelligence analysts say the operatives, Comoros-born Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Kenyan national Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, have eluded capture through the help of al-Qaida's support network in the coastal region of Kenya and in parts of the capital,Nairobi.

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The last two individuals are Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

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The target, or targets, near the Kenyan border were thought to include Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, and two others involved in the 1998 embassy bombings.

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The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point military academy in New York has obtained a passport of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed issued in 1990 in Moroni and renewed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1996.

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