Foreign commandoes said to carry out night raid in Somalia

Mar 10, 2016, 08:25

A vehicle driven by a suicide bomber detonated outside a cafe in Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing three police officers and one civilian..

Aways said the brunt of the attack - involving three warplanes and "infantry"- lasted about 30 minutes, according to the state-run Somali National News Agency.

The U.S. has a limited military presence at the airport in Mogadishu, and numbers of U.S. Special Operations forces have traveled to other locations in the country. The Pentagon said 150 fighters were killed in that assault, a figure al-Shabaab described as an exaggeration.

The insurgency by al-Shabab, which is fighting to impose a strict version of Islam in Somalia, "is clearly far from finished", Pham said.

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He said the US forces did not fire their weapons during the mission.

More than 10 militants were killed, said other US officials Wednesday who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an operation that has not been announced publicly.

There was no immediate Al-Shabaab response to the claim that Ugas and Mire had been killed. Forces have been on the ground as well, such as when U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six conducted a 2013 raid to capture suspected Al-Shabaab leader Ikrima only to pull out once it became clear he couldn't be taken alive, a senior U.S. official told CNN at the time.

"During the mission, our troops exited the aircraft and stayed in a safe area to observe the actions on the objective", said Colonel Mark Cheadle, an Africa Command spokesman, without offering additional details. That set off a firefight that ended with 18 US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis dead.

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Memories of that incident have colored US policy on Somalia for years, with successive administrations reluctant to get involved or risk a deadly repeat as al-Shabab gained strength. There were no civilian casualties reported.

The attack comes after a US airstrike on a training camp killed more than 150 al-Shabab members on Saturday. That could not be independently confirmed.

Al-Shabab said Wednesday that its fighters had foiled the attack by foreign forces on Awdhegle town in southern Somalia overnight, and that they retreated with casualties.

He warned: "Attacks in and around Mogadishu on individuals or groups associated with the government are likely to intensify".

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