ReasonWhatever you’d prefer to call it, the war on
terror continues .

From the Washington Post:

U.S. Navy SEALs carried out an overnight raid on the
Somali seaside home of a leader of the al-
Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab, U.S. officials said Saturday, an
operation that suggests how worried Washington has become about the
threat posed by an organization that recently launched an attack on
a shopping mall in neighboring Kenya.

A U.S. official said the aim of the raid, which took place Friday,
was to take a “high-value” al-Shabab militant into custody, but the
militant was not seized.

“U.S. personnel took all necessary precautions to avoid civilian
casualties and disengaged after inflicting some al-Shabab
casualties,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss a covert operation. “We are not in a position
to identify those casualties.”

The US also says it captured a suspect in the 1998 East African
embassy bombings in a separate operation in Libya.

Locals reported a predawn foreign strike in southern Somalia

earlier today; Kenya also
identified the four gunmen in the Nairobi mall terror attack.
Al Shabab has taken responsibility for the attack.

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