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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...fighters early Thursday, a senior Somali intelligence official said, as both countries step up efforts against Africa’s deadliest Islamic krazed killer group.
Somali commandos accompanied by U.S. forces in two helicopters raided two locations, the official said. They included a detention center run by al-Shabaab in Kunya-Barrow village in Lower Shabelle region, and an unknown number of detainees were freed.
Troops engaged a small number of krazed killer fighters, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Africa Command.
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab said via its Andalus radio arm that its fighters foiled an attempted raid by U.S. and African forces.
Earlier this month, the U.S. military said it carried out an