US Navy SEALs behind raid on Al-Shabab base: Report

The Somali group had earlier claimed 'Westerners' attacked coastal compound overnight

The Somali armed group Al-Shabab has said that a group of "Westerners" who arrived in boats attacked a house in one of its coastal bases under the cover of night, drawing gunfire from rebels and killing one.

Al Jazeera's Peter Greste, reporting from Mogadishu, quoted Somali government and Western intelligence sources as saying that they believe U.S. forces were involved in the attack.

"We don't know whether there are any non-U.S. troops that might have been involved with this," Greste said.

Al-Shabab said that British and Turkish soldiers were involved in the attack and that a British solider was killed. Both nations deny any involvement.

Later on Saturday, The New York Times reported that a U.S. Navy SEAL team carried out a pre-dawn mission in the seaside town of Baraawe and captured an Al-Shabab leader from his villa. The report cited an unnamed American security official as its source.

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