... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
snuffies said on Saturday Western forces had raided a coastal town under cover of darkness, killing a rebel fighter; officials said the target had been a Chechen leader of the Islamist group.
Foreign forces landed on the beach at Barawe, about 180 km (110 miles) south of Mogadishu, and launched an assault at dawn that drew gunfire from rebel fighters in one of the militia's coastal bases, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, front man for Al-Shabaab's military operations, told Rooters.