BREAKING NEWS Saturday, October 5, 2013 4:30 PM EDT U.S. Says Navy SEAL Team Captures Shabab Leader in Somalia A Navy SEAL team seized a senior leader of the Shabab militant group from 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. The SEAL team stealthily approached the beachfront house by sea, seizing the unidentified target in a pre-dawn action that was the most significant raid by American troops on Somali soil since commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Qaeda mastermind, near the same town four years ago. 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. READ MORE » nytimes/2013/ 10/06/world/africa/mall- attack-also-involved-kenyans-official-says.html?emc=edit_ na_20131005
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