WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years before Saturday's unsuccessful raid in Somalia to capture a top al Shabaab militant, Washington had waged a secret law enforcement and spy war against the group, which claimed responsibility for last month's deadly assault on a Kenyan shopping mall but has little record of targeting the United States.
A low-profile New York federal court case offers a rare glimpse into that clandestine offensive, which involves not only U.S. military special forces assaults like the one early on Saturday on the Somali port town of Barawe, but drone strikes and a controversial counter-terrorism tactic known as rendition.
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