US Raid in Somalia Targets Al-Shabab Leader, Raid in Libya Targets Al-Qaeda '98 Embassy Bombing Suspect
Navy SEALs
U.S. Navy SEALs carried out an overnight raid on the Somali seaside home of a leader of the al-
Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab, U.S. officials said Saturday, an operation that suggests how worried Washington has become about the threat posed by an organization that recently launched an attack on a shopping mall in neighboring Kenya.
A U.S. official said the aim of the raid, which took place Friday, was to take a "high-value" al-Shabab militant into custody, but the militant was not seized.
"U.S. personnel took all necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties and disengaged after inflicting some al-Shabab casualties," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a covert operation. "We are not in a position to identify those casualties."
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..."an operation that suggests how worried Washington has become about the threat posed by an organization that recently launched an attack on a shopping mall in neighboring Kenya."
Yeah, those shopping malls are connected by underground passageways, so the blondes in Alexandria were in grave danger.
It would have been nice if a couple of armed folks were in Benghazi PRIOR to the election last year, but the sleazy administration decided it wasn't worth it for some folks pissed about a movie.