Britain says forces not involved in Somalia raid

London: Britain today denied claims by Somlia`s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab that British special forces were involved in an attack on a key insurgent base. A spokesman for the Islamist group said "Britons and Turks" staged the operation in which commandos rappelled from a helicopter as they tried to storm a house belonging to a senior Shebab commander in the southern Somali port of Barawe. "There is no British involvement," a spokeswoman for Britain`s Ministry of Defence told AFP when asked to comment on the raid. She would not give any further details. The assault comes two weeks after Shebab gunmen attacked Kenya`s Westgate shopping mall, massacring 67 people in a four-day siege. Six Britons were among the dead. AFP