ISTANBUL: Turkey denied yesterday that its forces were involved in an assault in Somalia by US commandos against a suspected military leader of the Islamist Shabaab group.
“We deny these allegations completely,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
US Navy Seals stormed two militant targets in Africa on Saturday, snatching a top Al Qaeda suspect in the Libyan capital Tripoli and raiding a Shabaab leader’s home in the Somalian port of Barawe.
The action in Somalia came two weeks after the siege by Al Qaeda linked Shabaab fighters at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi which left at least 67 people dead.
AFP
