| British special forces have entered Somalia twice in recent weeks to hunt for members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Two teams of six soldiers from Britain's Special Air Service infiltrated into the Somali bush to locate up to four individuals wanted by Washington and London. They were probably sent in using "stealth" helicopters and operated day and night, setting up temporary observations posts by day, the source added. "Most of the effort there so far has been intelligence-based, but there have been a handful of these sorts of operations," an unnamed source said. Britain and the US started operations in Somalia as early as last October, with details of possible targets being fed back to Washington and London. |