By The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S. military as the top al-Qaida commander in Somalia, killing him and 10 others Thursday in a pre- dawn attack that analysts warned could torpedo peace talks.

By Jeffrey Gettleman and Eric Schmitt Jeffrey Gettleman reported from Nairobi, and Eric Schmitt from Washington.

By Steve Bloomfield The leader of Somalia's jihadist insurgent group, and the man believed to be the head of al-Qa'ida operations in East Africa, has been killed by an American airstrike.

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN By Mohamed Olad Hassan The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S.

MOGADISHU, Somalia _ A leading militant accused of having ties with al-Qaida was killed early Thursday in a U.S. military airstrike on a small central town, potentially slowing an Islamist insurgency that's been raging for more than a year in Somalia.