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09-21-2013, 11:51 AM
Update:
Kenya mall attack enters day 3 with gunfire, explosions as al-Shabab threatens ... (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57604115/kenya-mall-attack-enters-day-3-with-gunfire-explosions-as-al-shabab-threatens-to-kill-hostages/)
NAIROBI, Kenya Sporadic gunfire and explosions were heard Monday from the shopping mall in Kenya's capital where Somali terrorists remained holed-up with an unknown number of hostages.
Kenya Westgate mall hostage standoff continues; death toll hits 68 (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57604047/kenya-westgate-mall-hostage-standoff-continues-59-dead-so-far-minister-says/)
NAIROBI, KenyaA large explosion rocked the Kenyan mall where Islamic extremists are holding hostages a day after attacking the upscale shopping center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oF3t4QNc4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oF3t4QNc4
Related past news:
Kenya Invades Somalia. Does It Get Any Dumber?
By Alex Perry Oct. 19, 2011
Kenyan military board a truck headed to the Somali border, October 18, 2011. (Photo: AP)
If the history of war teaches us anything, it’s that invading a foreign country is dicey. Storming across too many borders was the undoing of many of the world’s great conquerors, from Alexander the Great to Napoleon to the Nazis. The last few decades of US foreign policy – Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – only underline how tricky invasions are, even for the most powerful. The last 20 years have also seen Somalia emerge with a particularly consistent record of chewing up anyone who arrives carrying a gun, including the U.N. and U.S. special operations troops (1992-3), Ethiopians (2006-9) and Ugandans and Burundians from an African Union peacekeeping force (2008-today).
So what does Kenya think it’s doing? On Sunday, a force estimated variously at a few hundred to 2,000 Kenyan soldiers crossed the border into Somalia into pursuit of militants from the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab.
History may be littered with warnings about just this kind of action but still, rarely has disaster been so plainly foretold. As an al-Shabab spokesman, Ali Mohamud Rage, told the BBC, while vowing retaliatory attacks on Nairobi: “Kenya doesn’t know war. We know war. We have fought against governments older and stronger than Kenya and we have defeated them.”
http://world.time.com/2011/10/19/kenya-invades-somalia-does-it-get-any-dumber (http://world.time.com/2011/10/19/kenya-invades-somalia-does-it-get-any-dumber/#ixzz2fl7nGuI8)
Kenya invades Somalia
A big gamble
The Kenyan invasion of Somalia is a perhaps unavoidable risk
Oct 29th 2011 | NAIROBI
SINCE Kenya became independent in 1963, its foreign policy has been determinedly non-interventionist. Its armed forces have seen little action at home and even less abroad. That changed this week when several thousand Kenyan troops invaded neighbouring Somalia.
http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/290-width/images/print-edition/20111029_MAM955.gif
The Americans claim that the offensive took them by surprise. That is hard to believe, especially since several of the missiles fired at jihadist fighters hidden in the mangrove swamps on the Somali side of the border seem to have been fired from American drones or submarines. France is also reported to have bombarded settlements near the Somali port of Kismayo, a base for the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia. The French were outraged by the recent kidnapping in Kenya of a disabled French woman and her subsequent death in Somalia, presumably at the Shabab's hands, as well as by the capture of one its spies in Somalia two years ago.
Kenya is frank about its military aim. It says it wants to push on from its positions in the Somali towns of Afmadow and Ras Kamboni to attack Kismayo from the west and south. It hopes to “inflict trauma and damage” on the Shabab.
And then what? The answer is fuzzier.
http://www.economist.com/node/21534828
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Appear to be Al Qaeda or terrorist militants behind it. It is apparently Israeli owned mall.
Nairobi mall attack, Sep. 21, 2013
President Obama notified about mall attack in Kenya - @NBCNews (http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGLih-hMM/2013/09/21/president-obama-notified-about-mall-attack-in-keny)
44 mins ago by editor
Kenya mall attack leaves at least 25 dead
http://www.trbimg.com/img-523dce8e/turbine/sns-photos-nairobi-mall-shooting-20130921-017/582
Tribune wire reports 12:07 p.m. CDT, September 21, 2013
NAIROBI—
Militant gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi today killing at least 25 people, including children, and sending scores fleeing in panic from shops and restaurants onto the streets, according to witnesses and the Red Cross.
Shooting continued hours after the initial assault as troops surrounded the Westgate mall and police and soldiers combed the building, hunting down the attackers shop by shop. A police officer inside the building said the gunmen were barricaded inside the Nakumatt supermarket, one of Kenya's biggest chains.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-kenya-mall-attack-20130921,0,4570194.story
There is no indication at this point that attackers were linked to suspected Jiahdist militant groups that were funded by Obama and were reportedly attacking Christians in Syria:
Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel snipers haunt Christian town of Maaloula (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/url?q=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/19/al-qaeda-linked-rebel-snipers-haunt-christian-town/&sa=U&ei=89Y9UoaKI6H7yAGmmIDIAw&ved=0CCIQqQIoADAA&usg=AFQjCNHIf-Sd1ixEPVJqfLGukUU8CUaQqg)
Washington Times - 2 days ago
Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels continue to haunt the predominantly Christian town of Maaloula as regime fighters struggle to regain power ...
Christian village Maaloula falls into jihadists' hands as Al-Qaeda ... (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/url?q=http://townhall.com/video/christian-village-maaloula-falls-into-jihadists-hands-as-alqaeda-grows-in-syria-n1705356&sa=U&ei=89Y9UoaKI6H7yAGmmIDIAw&ved=0CCcQqQIoADAB&usg=AFQjCNHyG_BFQwxo8LAIqEnvWghTEiJO-g)
Town Hall - 1 day ago
Townhall is packed with breaking news headlines, political news, and conservative opinion with Townhall columnists including Ann Coulter, ...
Kenya mall attack enters day 3 with gunfire, explosions as al-Shabab threatens ... (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57604115/kenya-mall-attack-enters-day-3-with-gunfire-explosions-as-al-shabab-threatens-to-kill-hostages/)
NAIROBI, Kenya Sporadic gunfire and explosions were heard Monday from the shopping mall in Kenya's capital where Somali terrorists remained holed-up with an unknown number of hostages.
Kenya Westgate mall hostage standoff continues; death toll hits 68 (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57604047/kenya-westgate-mall-hostage-standoff-continues-59-dead-so-far-minister-says/)
NAIROBI, KenyaA large explosion rocked the Kenyan mall where Islamic extremists are holding hostages a day after attacking the upscale shopping center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oF3t4QNc4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3oF3t4QNc4
Related past news:
Kenya Invades Somalia. Does It Get Any Dumber?
By Alex Perry Oct. 19, 2011
Kenyan military board a truck headed to the Somali border, October 18, 2011. (Photo: AP)
If the history of war teaches us anything, it’s that invading a foreign country is dicey. Storming across too many borders was the undoing of many of the world’s great conquerors, from Alexander the Great to Napoleon to the Nazis. The last few decades of US foreign policy – Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq – only underline how tricky invasions are, even for the most powerful. The last 20 years have also seen Somalia emerge with a particularly consistent record of chewing up anyone who arrives carrying a gun, including the U.N. and U.S. special operations troops (1992-3), Ethiopians (2006-9) and Ugandans and Burundians from an African Union peacekeeping force (2008-today).
So what does Kenya think it’s doing? On Sunday, a force estimated variously at a few hundred to 2,000 Kenyan soldiers crossed the border into Somalia into pursuit of militants from the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab.
History may be littered with warnings about just this kind of action but still, rarely has disaster been so plainly foretold. As an al-Shabab spokesman, Ali Mohamud Rage, told the BBC, while vowing retaliatory attacks on Nairobi: “Kenya doesn’t know war. We know war. We have fought against governments older and stronger than Kenya and we have defeated them.”
http://world.time.com/2011/10/19/kenya-invades-somalia-does-it-get-any-dumber (http://world.time.com/2011/10/19/kenya-invades-somalia-does-it-get-any-dumber/#ixzz2fl7nGuI8)
Kenya invades Somalia
A big gamble
The Kenyan invasion of Somalia is a perhaps unavoidable risk
Oct 29th 2011 | NAIROBI
SINCE Kenya became independent in 1963, its foreign policy has been determinedly non-interventionist. Its armed forces have seen little action at home and even less abroad. That changed this week when several thousand Kenyan troops invaded neighbouring Somalia.
http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/290-width/images/print-edition/20111029_MAM955.gif
The Americans claim that the offensive took them by surprise. That is hard to believe, especially since several of the missiles fired at jihadist fighters hidden in the mangrove swamps on the Somali side of the border seem to have been fired from American drones or submarines. France is also reported to have bombarded settlements near the Somali port of Kismayo, a base for the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia. The French were outraged by the recent kidnapping in Kenya of a disabled French woman and her subsequent death in Somalia, presumably at the Shabab's hands, as well as by the capture of one its spies in Somalia two years ago.
Kenya is frank about its military aim. It says it wants to push on from its positions in the Somali towns of Afmadow and Ras Kamboni to attack Kismayo from the west and south. It hopes to “inflict trauma and damage” on the Shabab.
And then what? The answer is fuzzier.
http://www.economist.com/node/21534828
--
Appear to be Al Qaeda or terrorist militants behind it. It is apparently Israeli owned mall.
Nairobi mall attack, Sep. 21, 2013
President Obama notified about mall attack in Kenya - @NBCNews (http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGLih-hMM/2013/09/21/president-obama-notified-about-mall-attack-in-keny)
44 mins ago by editor
Kenya mall attack leaves at least 25 dead
http://www.trbimg.com/img-523dce8e/turbine/sns-photos-nairobi-mall-shooting-20130921-017/582
Tribune wire reports 12:07 p.m. CDT, September 21, 2013
NAIROBI—
Militant gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi today killing at least 25 people, including children, and sending scores fleeing in panic from shops and restaurants onto the streets, according to witnesses and the Red Cross.
Shooting continued hours after the initial assault as troops surrounded the Westgate mall and police and soldiers combed the building, hunting down the attackers shop by shop. A police officer inside the building said the gunmen were barricaded inside the Nakumatt supermarket, one of Kenya's biggest chains.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-kenya-mall-attack-20130921,0,4570194.story
There is no indication at this point that attackers were linked to suspected Jiahdist militant groups that were funded by Obama and were reportedly attacking Christians in Syria:
Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel snipers haunt Christian town of Maaloula (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/url?q=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/19/al-qaeda-linked-rebel-snipers-haunt-christian-town/&sa=U&ei=89Y9UoaKI6H7yAGmmIDIAw&ved=0CCIQqQIoADAA&usg=AFQjCNHIf-Sd1ixEPVJqfLGukUU8CUaQqg)
Washington Times - 2 days ago
Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels continue to haunt the predominantly Christian town of Maaloula as regime fighters struggle to regain power ...
Christian village Maaloula falls into jihadists' hands as Al-Qaeda ... (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/url?q=http://townhall.com/video/christian-village-maaloula-falls-into-jihadists-hands-as-alqaeda-grows-in-syria-n1705356&sa=U&ei=89Y9UoaKI6H7yAGmmIDIAw&ved=0CCcQqQIoADAB&usg=AFQjCNHyG_BFQwxo8LAIqEnvWghTEiJO-g)
Town Hall - 1 day ago
Townhall is packed with breaking news headlines, political news, and conservative opinion with Townhall columnists including Ann Coulter, ...