Stopping this monster in his tracks before he became the next Bin Laden is a huge deal and another national security victory for the President.

DEVELOPING: In stealth beachfront raid, @USNavy #SEAL team captures Shabab leader in #Somalia, @nytimes rpts: nyti.ms/GET45r

https://mobile.twitter.com/malbertnews/status/386590449181683713

I thought the government was shut down?

I dunno... whoever is in charge these days really seems crafty.

... so they can get back to their second jobs, where they get paid.

Fortunately, their wages will not be lost, merely delayed until the govt re-opens.

Time for a new war...in SOMALIA!!!

Empire USA!

Glad for this

Kill it or it will kill us

I mean, they're not even trying.

War with Somalia?

and killed some folks and rescued two aid workers?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/05/somalia-kenya-al-shabaab-westgate-mall
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Foreign military forces were reported on Saturday to have carried out a raid on a southern Somalian coastal town, apparently in pursuit of "a high-profile target" linked to the militant al-Shabaab group, which was behind last month's Kenyan mall shootings.

Although accounts were contradictory, what seems clear from eyewitness accounts and descriptions of the raid – including by a spokesman for al-Shabaab – was that a group of "white soldiers" launched an attack from small boats, reportedly supported by a helicopter and naval gunfire, in the pre-dawn darkness.

Claims by an al-Shabaab spokesman that the raid involved UK and Turkish special forces and that a British commando had been killed were denied by a UK official: "To the best of our knowledge, no British forces were involved in this." Asked about the raid, however, a Pentagon spokesman, George Little, said: "I decline comment."

The raid hit a two-storey house close to the beach in the town of Barawe, an al-Shabaab stronghold, in the lower Shabelle region, some 150 miles south of Mogadishu. It is the same town where US navy commandos killed a senior al-Qaida member four years ago.

"What right does Obama have to succeed where xCommander George AWOL Bush, Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney, and all the rest of our vast cabal of vaunted Republicon Chickenhawks have so miserably and disgracefully FAILED?" - RepubliBaggers (R)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/world/africa/mall-attack-also-involved-kenyans-official-says.html?_r=0
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A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility.

The SEAL team stealthily approached the beachfront house by sea, firing on the unidentified target in a predawn gunbattle that was the most significant raid by American troops on Somali soil since commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Qaeda mastermind, near the same town four years ago.

The Shabab leader was believed to have been killed in the firefight, but the SEALS were forced to withdraw before that could be confirmed, a senior American official said. Such operations by American forces are rare because they carry a high risk, and indicate that the target was considered a high priority. Baraawe, a small port town south of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, is known as a gathering place for the Shabab’s foreign fighters.

“The Baraawe raid was planned a week and a half ago,” said an American security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity about a classified operation. “It was prompted by the Westgate attack,” he added, referring to the mall in Nairobi that was overrun by militants two weeks ago, leaving more than 60 dead.

DU always first

A key person responsible for embassy bombings.

Obama is The Highlander!

Where was Speaker of the House Rafael Cruz?