Unknown foreign forces attack Al-Shabab base from sea, reports say Updated
Saturday, October 5th 2013 at 09:47 GMT +3
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Unidentified foreign forces have launched a night-time raid on a militant
base in the south Somali town of Barawe from the sea, reports say.
A spokesman for the
al-Shabab<http://standardmedia.co.ke/?searchtext=al-Shabab&searchbutton=SEARCH>Islamist
group told Reuters news agency that a fighter had been killed in
the raid.
Reports speak of residents in the militant-controlled town being woken by
heavy gunfire before dawn prayers.
Al-Shabab claimed responsibility last month for a deadly attack on a
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shopping mall.
At least 67 people were killed after militants stormed the Westgate mall in
the capital, Nairobi, on 21 September.
*'Helicopters'*
There was no immediate comment on Saturday's alleged attack in Barawe from
the Western-backed authorities in
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.
According to the Somali news website Midnimo, two helicopters were also
involved in the raid.
"Westerners in boats attacked our base at Barawe beach and one was martyred
from our side," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, described as
al-Shabab<http://standardmedia.co.ke/?searchtext=al-Shabab&searchbutton=SEARCH>'s
spokesman for military operations, told Reuters by telephone.
Another
al-Shabab<http://standardmedia.co.ke/?searchtext=al-Shabab&searchbutton=SEARCH>member,
named as Abu Mohamed, told the Associated Press that "foreign"
soldiers had attacked a house in Barawe.
Militants rushed to the scene to capture a foreign soldier but were
unsuccessful, he added.
Western navies tasked with fighting piracy patrol the seas off
Somalia<http://standardmedia.co.ke/?searchtext=Somalia&searchbutton=SEARCH>,
which has been beset by conflict for more than two decades.
The US military has used drones in
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support the government and African Union forces in their battle
against
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.
France has also intervened militarily on occasion, carrying out an
unsuccessful commando raid to free a French intelligence agent in January.
Two French commandos were killed and
al-Shabab<http://standardmedia.co.ke/?searchtext=al-Shabab&searchbutton=SEARCH>later
reported that it had killed the agent.
*- BBC*
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