Morning Star.png Somalis Repel Foreign Military Raid The Morning Star, London, 10 March 2016 Somali al-Shabab guerillas said yesterday that they had foiled an airborne night raid by unidentified foreign commandos. The special forces-style operation saw troops in two helicopters land two miles from the southern coastal town of Awdhegle, about 30 miles south-west of the capital Mogadishu. The small force sneaked into the town to launch a surprise attack but apparently was discovered, leading to a gun battle near the local police station. Al-Shabab said it had inflicted casualties on the attackers and forced them to retreat, adding that one of the guerillas had also been killed in the fighting. "They were masked and spoke foreign languages which our fighters could not understand," al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told the Reuters news agency. "We do not know who they were, but we foiled them." While no country claimed responsibility for the attack, it came just three days after a large US air raid on an alleged al-Shabab training camp in Somalia's central highlands near the Ethiopian border. The US Defence Department claimed on Monday that the bombing had killed 150 militants who were preparing an attack on US or African Union troops in the country. The African Union mission did not comment on Tuesday night's commando raid. The possibility of increased US military involvement in Somalia recalls Washington's humiliating defeat by local militias in the 1993 battle of Mogadishu. Three police officers and a civilian were killed yesterday when a car bomb exploded outside a cafe near the police academy in Mogadishu. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0737-Somalia-Al-Shabab-repels-foreign- military-raid#.VuDo2Pl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0737-Somalia-Al-Shabab-repels-foreign-m ilitary-raid#.VuDo2Pl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
