US forces have staged a pre-dawn raid against a senior al Shabaab leader in Somalia who has links to last month's attack on a Nairobi shopping mall.
A Navy SEAL team slipped ashore near a southern Somalia town before the al Qaeda-linked militants rose for dawn prayers.
The raid on a house in the town of Barawa targeted a specific al Qaeda suspect related to last month's Kenya mall attack.
A US military official told the Associated Press that the raid did not capture its target. No military personnel were injured or killed in the attack.
The operation marked the most significant US assault in Somalia since commandos killed key al Qaeda operative Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan in the same area four years ago.
It followed an attack by al Shabaab gunmen on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi that left 67 people dead during a four-day siege.
One of the gunmen in the Kenyan shopping centre attack "US personnel took all necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties in this operation and disengaged after inflicting some Shabaab casualties," the official said.
Declining to identify the people who died, the official said that "even in these extreme operational circumstances, the US military is very cautious to minimise civilian casualties".
The al Qaeda-linked Shabaab had earlier claimed it was British and Turkish special forces that staged a night-time sea and air attack on one of its bases, but Britain denied any involvement.
Leaders of the Islamist insurgents in the southern Somali port of Barawa said commandos rappelled from a helicopter and tried to storm a house belonging to a senior Shabaab commander, but the assault failed.
Al Shabaab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP that commandos had stormed the beach by boat, but laid blamed on Britain and Turkey.
"The bungled operation was carried out by white people, who came with two small boats from a larger ship out at sea ... one Shabaab guard was killed, but reinforcements soon came and the foreigners fled," he said.
"Where the foreigners had been, afterwards we saw lots of blood, so maybe we wounded some."
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