Al-Shabaab claims British, Turkish special forces attack Somali base.

Al-Shabaab claims British, Turkish special forces attack Somali base.(HD).

British and Turkish special forces staged a nighttime sea and air attack on a key base of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab, the insurgents said Oct. 5, claiming the assault had failed.

Islamist commanders in the southern Somali port of Barawe said commandos rappelled from a helicopter as they tried to storm a house belonging to a senior al-Shabaab commander.

The assault comes two weeks after al-Shabaab gunmen attacked Kenya's Westgate shopping mall, massacring 67 people in a four-day siege.

"The enemy of Allah tried to surprise the mujahedeen commanders with a night attack using a military helicopter, but they were taught a lesson and they have failed," Mohamed Abu Suleiman, the al-Shabaab commander in the small seaside town, told AFP.

"Our mujahedeen fighters inside the house fought back and the cowards ran away," Suleiman added.
Al-Shabaab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab later blamed the raid on "Britons and Turks."

He said commandos had also stormed the beach by boat.

"The bungled operation was carried out by white people, who came with two small boats from a larger ship out at sea... one al-Shabaab guard was killed, but reinforcements soon came and the foreigners fled," he told AFP.Read the full story here.

White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite ‘plotted Nairobi mall massacre from secret lair just 100 yards away’

White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite ‘plotted Nairobi mall massacre from secret lair just 100 yards away'.(CJR).By Russell Myers:

The fugitive White Widow plotted the bloody Kenyan mall massacre from a secret lair just 100 yards away, security forces believe.

British mum-of-three Samantha Lewthwaite – now the world’s most wanted woman – rented a house opposite the shopping centre where crazed Muslim fanatics later slaughtered up to 150 people, they say.
Police sources said a “delicate operation” was now under way to search properties around the Westgate mall since the horrific four-day gun siege erupted in Nairobi a week ago.
Interpol has issued a worldwide alert to find 29-year-old Muslim convert Lewthwaite and sources revealed that a huge part of the probe centred on her being “ghosted” into Somalia – base of terror group al-Shabaab, which has claimed r­esponsibility for the attack.
A source said: “Nothing is being ruled out, but a major strand of the investigation is looking at Lewthwaite having been in Nairobi more than once in the last few months but then travelling back across the border to Somalia.“She has known links in the country and surrounding areas. Everything is being done to find her.”

A Turkish man arrested attempting to board an international flight at capital Nairobi’s JKI airport on Tuesday is said to own the property Lewthwaite allegedly used to plot the bloodshed.

The man, in his 40s or 50s, is also understood to be linked to a shop hired by the ­militants to store a deadly arsenal of weapons in preparation for the siege.

He has lived in the African country for three years and detectives were last night quizzing him over his potential connection to members of al-Shabaab.

It is also possible that he may have rented the shop to them unwittingly.
Sources said Lewthwaite, the daughter of a former British soldier, may have been seen in Kenya just 12 weeks ago.Hmmmm..........Turkish man contacts with Al-Shabaab...........Turkish IHH,  delivers aid to Al-Shabaab.