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                        US Names Target of Somalia Raid

   A U.S. official says the target of Saturday`s special forces raid in
   Somalia was a Kenyan man working with the militant group al-Shabab.
   A senior Obama administration official identifies the man as Abdulkadir
   Mohamed Abdulkadir, a Kenyan of Somali origin who also goes by the name
   Ikrima.
   The official says Abdulkadir is a foreign fighter commander for
   al-Shabab.
   A U.S. Navy SEAL team went ashore in Barawe, Somalia on Saturday in an
   effort to capture Abdulkadir.
   Officials say the team killed several Shabab militants in a firefight
   but withdrew without capturing their target. None of the SEAL team
   members was harmed.
   A U.S. official told The New York Times that Washington planned the
   Somalia operation in response to last month`s assault by al-Shabab on a
   Kenyan shopping mall. More than 60 civilians were killed in the attack
   on the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
   Al-Shabab has vowed to carry out other attacks in Kenya unless the
   country`s government withdraws its forces from Somalia.
   The senior Obama administration official says Abdulkadir was associated
   with two now-deceased al-Qaida operatives -- Harun Fazul and Saleh
   Nabhan. The two allegedly played roles in the 1998 bombing of the U.S.
   embassy in Nairobi and the 2002 attacks on a hotel and an airliner in
   Mombasa.
   U.S. commandos killed Nabhan during a raid near Barawe in 2009.
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