AP Sources: Navy SEALs Raid Somali Town
10.06.2013 at 08:01am
AP Sources: Navy SEALs Raid Somali Town by Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press.
A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that Navy SEALs have raided a Somali coastal town looking for an al-Qaida suspect in connection with the Nairobi shopping mall attack, but did not get their target.
Two U.S. officials who discussed the raid spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be identified.
One of the officials describes the raid as a capture operation against a high-value target. That official says U.S. forces engaged al-Shabab militants and inflicted some casualties, but that no U.S. service members were harmed…
