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| Al-Shabaab: Three Americans Among Gunmen in Kenya Mall |
| 2013-09-22 |
| From Bridget Johnson @ PJ Media Al-Shabaab is claiming that there are American gunmen among those still holed up in the Westgate mall in a standoff with Kenyan and Israeli special forces. The Somali al-Qaeda affiliate tweeted a series of names on its latest account before Twitter against suspended the group. Al-Shabaab has been creating new accounts each time they get shut down but a movement of pro-Kenyan tweeters has been tracking down the new accounts and complaining to Twitter. Al-Shabaab recently released a PR video targeted at Somali-Americans in Minnesota, trying to lure them to jihad as more than two dozen have already done so through the state's "terror pipeline." Three Americans -- Abdisalan Hussein Ali, Farah Mohamed Beledi and Shirwa Ahmed -- from Minnesota have been suicide bombers for Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu over the past few years. Other gunmen were named as being from locations such as Finland, Canada, the UK., Somalia and Kenya. None of the names were female, even though witnesses reported a white woman among the shooters. That's raised speculation about whether "White Widow" Samantha Lewthwaite, a British widow of one of the 7/7 attackers who became an al-Qaeda paymaster, is involved in the attacks. Last year she was on the run in Kenya as international authorities tried to hunt her down. Nine names were released; authorities have said 10 to 15 gunmen are still believed to be in the mall holding around 30 hostages, including possibly children. CNN International witnessed one grief-stricken man trying to break police lines to get into the mall, claiming that his kids are still inside. The death toll in the terrorist attack rose to 68 today. More than 175 have been wounded. The rest of the article is obligatory political stuff and reactions on the internet. The Somalis seem to be angry about what radicalized Somali-Americans are doing in their name. We're kinda disfunctional about cultural stuff these days. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #10 RELATED FREEREPUBLIC > [DailyMail.UK] FIVE OF THE KENYAN MALL MASSACRE GUNMEN ARE AMERICAN. and * BHARAT RAKSHAK, TOPIX > HALF OF NAIROBI/KENYA MALL ATTACK TERRORISTS ARE AMERICANS. versus * Also from BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Guardian] KENYAN ATTACK IS PRODUCT OF BRUTAL POWER STRUGGLE WITHIN AL-SHABAAB. * SAME, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Hindustan Times] PAKISTANI TERRORIST TRAINER HELD IN NAIROBI ATTACK. FYI Al-Shabaab has also formally declared or considers Nairobi + Kenya to be "war zone(s)", ostensib between Islam + all non-Islam. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-22 23:31 |
| #9 I don't see anyone that I recognize. Kill them all. |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-09-22 20:55 |
| #8 Kenya repor called in Israeli SPECOPS to help them. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-09-22 20:14 |
| #7 How can you be a suicide bomber for the past few years? Is that like a Kamikaze pilot with more than one mission? |
| Posted by: Sgt.D.T. 2013-09-22 20:14 |
| #6 The elite media types really shouldn't worry. The majority of Americans are more worried about what the Kardashians are up to, or American Idol... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-22 18:15 |
| #5 we've already had 9-11, the sniipers, the boston marathon massacre and the ft hood massacre and the elite news types are still worried about islamophobia |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-09-22 18:12 |
| #4 Oh, I imagine the islamists' American sympathists in DC have warned them them that something like the Kenyan mall thing here on American soil will pay bitter dividends for a long time to come. Unfortunately, deaf ears and all that... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-22 17:17 |
| #3 If Kenyan special forces doesn't kill them, they'll be back in America working at Humma Abedeen's think tank / lobbying shop. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-09-22 17:06 |
| #2 In the desperate hope that ONE of them will find the destination he is told |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2013-09-22 16:31 |
| #1 yet we continue to import Somalis. How many taxi drivers DO WE NEED? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-22 16:28 |