Kenya (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

Now the NYT reports, after a "leak" that:

A Navy SEAL team seized a senior leader of the Shabab militant group from his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said

Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/wo...ml?smid=tw-bna

[omarali50]

Now saying "believed to have been killed" instead of captured. Sounds like the raid may have failed.

[Bill Moore]

Reports are still mixed on the Somali operation against Al-Shabaab, which isn't unusual.

More significant is the apparent successful operation in Libya to capture al-Liby who is a very significant AQ operative. I have no idea if he was tied to the recent attack in Kenya, but he is tied to the attack on the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, so he obviously had a network in the region at one time.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/05/world/...ader-captured/

A key al Qaeda operative wanted for his role in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 has been captured in a U.S. special operations forces raid in Tripoli, Libya, U.S. officials tell CNN.

Abu Anas al Libi was grabbed from the Libyan capital in what one of the officials described as a "capture" operation from the Libyan capital. The U.S. operation was conducted with the knowledge of the Libyan government, a U.S. official said.

Reportedly the FBI participated in this capture with a U.S. Special Operations team. This makes sense, there is a long history of doing this, at least back to 1983. For our younger viewers, we were conducting counterterrorism operations long before 9/11.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_ter...s/anas-al-liby

Anas Al-Liby was indicted in the Southern District of New York, for his alleged involvement in the bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998

http://www.nctc.gov/site/profiles/al_liby.html

Wanted Anas al-Liby has been indicted for his alleged role in the 7 August 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. The embassy bombings killed 224 civilians and wounded over 5,000 others. The following charges were filed: Conspiracy to kill US nationals, to murder, to destroy buildings and property of the United States, and to destroy national defense utilities of the United States.

[JMA]

Now the NYT reports, after a "leak" that:

Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/wo...ml?smid=tw-bna

The the post action 'leak' which as we know (from recent British experience) could well be paid for information from a military insider to the press.

More alarmingly in the report it says the “The attack was carried out by the American forces, and the Somali government was pre-informed about the attack.”

Is this an untrue sop to Somali sovereignty... or could the US have really learned nothing about OPSEC after all this time.

I put it to you that the last people who should know about any such operation is the Somali government.