"A Navy Seal team staged a pre-dawn raid on a house in the southern town of Barawa after swimming ashore before the al Qaeda-linked militants rose for morning prayers.
Reinforcements arrived at the house and Seal Team Six, the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, encountered fiercer resistance than expected, a senior US military source told The Associated Press.
After a 15 to 20-minute firefight, the unit leader decided to abort the mission and they swam away, the source said.
Al Shabaab later claimed there was "no senior official" in the house at the time of the raid."
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