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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 21, 2013 20:46:36 GMT -5
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you... Multiple reports Muslims were asked to leave before shooting began. www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-wn-kenya-mall-attack-death-toll-hits-39-20130921,0,2371473.story Kenya mall attack: Death toll hits 39; reports of Americans injuredJOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- At least 39 people were killed and 150 injured Saturday when masked gunmen stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, shooting people and taking hostages, President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a live statement on national television. Kenyatta said that he lost close family members in the ongoing attack at Westgate mall, which is popular with wealthy Kenyans and expatriates. Police and government officials were swift to call it a terrorist attack, with witnesses reporting that non-Muslims were targeted. "The despicable perpetrators of this cowardly act hoped to intimate, divide and cause despondency amongst Kenyans," Kenyatta said. "We have overcome terrorist attacks before. We have fought courageously and defeated them in and outside our borders. We will defeat them again."
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 22, 2013 7:26:28 GMT -5
I have said for years now that if terrorists wanted to really bring America to its knees that all it would take is attacks on soft targets that ran up a body count not necessarily in NY or Chicago (might not be such a surprise there) but in the cafes and malls of the heartland. I know people who will still not fly today because of 9/11 and I know people who looked up with fear at the sound of a plane for sometime after that event. The American public have not lived with such a reality unlike the Israeli people who say good by in the morning to each other knowing that it might be the last time they do so. Such an attack would keep people cowering in the homes and have a major effect on the economy. Such an attack would have many clamoring for police and military on our streets and into our malls. A series of such attacks would be the crisis that many would bring many welcoming martial law in the name of security. Be prepared and be ever vigilant... worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/22/20632904-armed-siege-at-kenya-shopping-mall-enters-second-day-59-dead?liteArmed siege at Kenya shopping mall enters second day; 59 dead An armed hostage siege at a crowded shopping mall frequented by Westerners in Nairobi, Kenya, entered its second day Sunday - with officials saying the death toll had reached 59. American citizens, including a 26-year-old San Diego woman, were among at least 150 wounded in Saturday’s attack. Several foreigners, including a Canadian diplomat, were among the dead. Sporadic gunfire could gunfire could be heard from the scene early Sunday. Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told reporters that the government believed there were 10 to 15 attackers and that security forces were still locked in a standoff. He said 59 people had died but that efforts were underway to free other hostages, without giving details. The militant Islamic group al-Shabab, based in neighboring Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack via Twitter, saying it was in retaliation "for the lives of innocent Muslims" killed by Kenyan forces leading an African Union offensive against al-Shabab.
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Post by brocktownsend on Sept 22, 2013 9:49:09 GMT -5
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Post by watchful on Sept 23, 2013 8:33:11 GMT -5
Truth is a always relevant to your opinion.
One result of Syria is that the people are beginning to awaken to the fact that Al-Qeida is not a foreign force of super Jihadist radicals, but are American trained, American funded, and American directed. This was either a very big mistake or an attempt to psyop the people into accepting them. If so then why Kenya?
When most of American think of Kenya they think of UNICEF photos of hungry kids with flies on their faces and swollen bellies. The idea of malls, and from the photos, high class malls is new to America.
While it could be a way to give Big O's Kenyan half brother a leg up in local politics by solving the situation today on an RT news feed they mentioned that some of the Terrorists had US roots?
You will notice that the reason given is for Kenya's involvement in Somalia!
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Post by walfred on Sept 24, 2013 4:06:09 GMT -5
Claims of a couple of radical muslim American's(if you can call them American's) involved in the shootings....Their involvement in a major terror attack may be prelude of things to come here,in the very near future.
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 24, 2013 14:34:01 GMT -5
minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/09/22/minn-somali-community-reacts-to-kenyan-mall-attack/There has been information about the recruitment of young men from this community for some time and the number varies from estimates of between 20 adn 50 who have gone to Somalia to train and soem have been accounted for in the dead on the battlefield. Not to worry Al Qaeda has been decimated and there no longer is a war on terror. Well except for thsoe pesky TEA party folks and all those other patriot groups and oh yeah and don't forget returning vets...
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