... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
, the armed Somali Islamic krazed killer group that attacked a shopping mall in Kenya, said Wednesday that foreigners were a "legitimate target" and confirmed witness accounts that gunnies tried to let Moslems go free while killing or taking the others captive.
In an email exchange Wednesday with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, al-Shabaab said the jihadis "carried out a meticulous vetting process" so the Moslems would not be harmed. According to published accounts, witnesses have said the gunnies rounded up people, asked questions about Islam that a Moslem would know and told the Moslems to leave the mall.
At least 18 foreigners were killed, including six Britons, citizens from La Belle France, Canada, Trinidad, the Netherlands, Australia, Peru, India, Ghana, South Africa and China, when the snuffies entered the Westgate Mall on Saturday, slaughtering men, women and kiddies with assault rifles and grenades. The current corpse count is 67 and is likely to climb with uncounted bodies remaining in the rubble of the Nairobi mall.
"The Mujahideen carried out a meticulous vetting process at the mall and have taken every possible precaution to separate the Moslems from the Kuffar (disbelievers) before carrying out their attack," al-Shabaab said in an email from the HSM Press Office. HSM are the initials of al-Shabaab's full name in Arabic.