U.S. Says Shabab Leader in Somalia May Have Been Killed
A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility.
American officials initially reported that the commandos had seized the Shabab leader, but later backed off of that account.
The Shabab leader was now believed to have been killed in the firefight, but the SEALs were forced to withdraw before that could be confirmed, a senior American official said. Such operations by American forces are rare because they carry a high risk, and indicate that the target was considered a high priority. Baraawe, a small port town south of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, is known as a gathering place for the Shabab’s foreign fighters.
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