- Sat Oct 05, 2013 3:04 pm
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NAIROBI, Kenya — A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility. The SEAL team stealthily approached the beachfront house by sea, firing on the unidentified target in a predawn gunbattle that was the most significant raid by American troops on Somali soil since commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a Qaeda mastermind, near the same town four years ago.
At the same time the Obama Administration has cut the American Forces Network services to all Navy ships, so those very Navy Seals who carried out the mission won't be able to what the NFL games during their down time, instead when turning on the ships' televisions they see this "“GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Due to the government shutdown by Republicans, the Defense Department can only provide limited overseas television, radio, print and web services.”
