al-Qaeda AGAIN!!! Serabi: The ongoing siege at the Westgate shopping mall, in Nairobi, by Al Qaeda Shabaab fighters, in which at least sixty-two people have been shot dead, is close to its denouement. The Kenyan military has begun retaking the mall, and has started a final push to capture or kill the dozen or so gunmen still hiding in the building. (The Kenyans may also be getting advice or help from American and Israeli special forces or private contractors, which some reports suggest are on the scene.) The gunmen are burning mattresses to afford some cover and, probably, the privacy to say final prayers. However it ends, the attack will have lasting implications far beyond Kenya. Just as the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi was the opening salvo in the global war on terror, so this attack marks a decisive evolution of Islamist extremists away from the pyrotechnics of Al Qaeda and toward butchery as practiced by Nigeria’s Boko Haram, a group that claims to fight for Sharia law by murdering civilians and soldiers. If Islamist Twitter accounts are to be believed, some of the gunmen may be (have been) Americans and Swedes of Somali extraction, as well as the usual frontline jihad assortment of Arabs, Chechens, and Uzbeks. The presence of local Muslims is more significant. If the madness, what might be called the “Boko loco,” can take hold among youth in Kenya, with its strong tradition of concord between religions, it will be harder to contain elsewhere. Grisly scene at Nairobi morgue 2013-09-23 15:48 Nairobi - The bodies are laid out on metal blocks, victims from all walks of life lying side by side amid a stench of death in Nairobi city mortuary. Vehicles drove in and out, from shiny black hearses to beat-up minibuses, to fetch the dead from the attack by Somali militants on an upmarket Nairobi shopping mall. For many families, the anguished search for loved ones missing since the siege began on Saturday ended here at the central mortuary. "There were 38 bodies, now only 16 are left," mortuary superintendant Sammy Nyongesa Jacob told AFP. The smell of decomposition wafted out of the open windows of the unrefrigerated morgue, hitting visitors as they entered the car park. A pathologist's bloodied coat sleeve was visible through the window as attendants in white disposable overalls, face masks and latex gloves bundled another corpse into a waiting hearse. "Yesterday we were moving around from hospital to hospital looking for him. Now we are here for the post mortem," said Alice, widow of 63-year-old David Muthumbi Karechu, a manager at Bank of Baroda. "I did not know where he had gone. Around five [17:00] on Saturday Mum called me and asked if I had been able to get in touch with him," recounted Karechu's eldest son, Zachary. "It was when we were watching the news that we started to realise it was a possibility Dad had been caught up in that attack," he said. "We searched the whole of Saturday night and the whole of Sunday," he told AFP, adding that his father's body had been brought in on Sunday afternoon. "We're trying to bear with the situation," said Jane Mwigi, a smartly dressed relative, turning away to remove her glasses and wipe the tears from her eyes. "You go out in the morning and then you never come back," said David Nyaboga, another Bank of Baroda manager who had come along to give support to the grieving family. Around the corner in a garden, the family of a chauffeur named Wachiru huddled in a subdued group. "He'd gone to the mall with the family of his boss. He was a driver," volunteered Wachiru's youngest son, Mark. Breaking the news to the family One of his older brothers Steven, too distraught to speak, was being comforted by friends and family on a bench. Elizabeth Akinyi, the family's pastor, recounted how difficult it had been to break the news to the young man. "Steven is such a sensitive person," she said. "Wachiru was a dear to everyone," chipped in an uncle, who identified himself only as Njoroge. A diplomatic vehicle ferried in three officials in green reflective waistcoats identifying them as embassy personnel. They appeared to be helping with formalities as the body of a British citizen was carried out to a waiting hearse. In the carpark, vendors were selling the red streamers that hearses are required to attach to their mirrors, rope for lashing a coffin to a minibus roof and flower arrangements. In a country so often defined by its ethnic and class divisions, Kenyans seemed united in grief. "Everyone was affected by this attack," said Sarah Mbone, an elderly woman wearing a tie-dye shawl over a flowery dress. "President [Uhuru] Kenyatta lost his nephew, and me, just an ordinary person, I lost my niece," Mbone said. "She had popped into the bank." - AFP (Edited by Serabi)  (Post deleted by duncan124 ) Serabi: Why would people being murdered trouble me at all? I love murder, mayhem and pain!!! Fucking idiot!!! Serabi: The latest reports are that 6 British nationals have been killed in the Kenya terror attacks Serabi: A Muslim resident Sanaa Sidi speaking to BBC outside Westgate: "This is not Islam, it is terrorism - they have their own religion" - BBC Africa  harlett anathema: if you could not recite a Islamic Prayer You were shot.... http://www.alislam.org/books/pathwaytoparadise/LAJ-chp5.htm Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest; there is no God but Allah, and Allah is the Greatest; Allah is the Greatest and all praise belongs to Allah. Serabi: @Duncan - you ask why I posted this thread and whether it bothers me... then you take it off! That is really cowardly. What filter are you talking about? Pool filter, cigarette filter, learn English! This drama is entering its 3rd day now. Serabi: Siege is over! Oh hell no! British and Americans involved? Mall attack: Militants defeated, 11 in custody 2013-09-24 22:23 Nairobi - Kenya's president said on Tuesday that his forces had "defeated" Islamists from Somalia's al-Shabaab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others suspected of killing 67 people after storming a Nairobi shopping mall. It remained unclear after Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation on television whether the four-day security operation at the upmarket Westgate centre was completely over, or whether any militants were still at large or hostages unaccounted for. "We have ashamed and defeated our attackers," Kenyatta said, adding that bodies were still trapped under rubble following the collapse of part of the building late in the operation. A fire began on Monday which officials said was started by the gunmen. Sixty-one civilians and six security personnel had been confirmed killed in the four days of bloodshed, Kenyatta said. Five of the attackers were shot dead and 11 suspects were in custody: "Kenya has stared down evil and triumphed," he said. The president added that he could not confirm intelligence reports that a British woman and two or three Americans might be involved. Forensic scientists were involved in trying to identify the nationalities of the "terrorists", he said. "Towards the tail end of the operation, three floors of the Westgate mall collapsed and there are several bodies trapped in the rubble including the terrorists," he added. The death toll had previously been put by officials at 62. "These cowards will meet justice as will their accomplices and patrons, wherever they are," said the president, who thanked other leaders for support and used his address to both praise the response of the Kenyan people and call for national unity, six months after his election was marked by ethnic tensions. Kenyatta had rejected the militants' demands that he pull Kenyan troops out of its northern neighbour. As part of an African peacekeeping force in Somalia, Kenyan forces have pushed al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab on to the defensive over the past two years. Kenyan officials have announced the imminent end of the siege for the past three days - something al-Shabaab spokespersons have mocked in commentaries and in postings on social media. Some hours before Kenyatta spoke, the group said its militants were still holding out with hostages and that there were "countless dead bodies" still inside the complex. "There are countless number of dead bodies still scattered inside the mall, and the Mujahideen are still holding their ground #Westgate," the group said on its Twitter feed. "The hostages who were being held by the Mujahideen inside #Westgate are still alive, looking quite disconcerted but, nevertheless, alive." It described its fighters as "unruffled and strolling around the mall in such sangfroid manner". In an audio statement posted via Twitter, al-Shabaab spokesperson Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage called the militants' action a "deadly thrust" by "loyal soldiers seeking to rewrite history". If Kenya failed to pull troops out of Somalia and free al-Shabaab prisoners it should "expect black days". The attack has come at a time when several violent Islamist groups from Mali to Algeria, Nigeria to Kenya - tapping into local grievances but all espousing an anti-Western, anti-Christian creed - are striking at state authority and international interests. Earlier on Tuesday, the Kenyan military said its forces were carrying out "mop up operations" in the building. The Interior Ministry earlier said security forces were in control of the mall and that all the hostages had been released. Images from closed-circuit television inside the mall during the attack, published in a Kenyan newspaper on Tuesday, showed two militants, casually dressed and wearing ammunition belts. One held an assault rifle. Al-Shabaab confirmed that the two men were part of the group that attacked Westgate. Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed told PBS television in the United States that "two or three Americans" and a British woman were among the militants. She said the Americans were "young men, about between maybe 18 and 19" years old. She said they were of Somali or Arab origin and had lived in "in Minnesota and one other place". Al-Shabaab, which said it had been in communication with its members in the mall, dismissed the minister's comments. "Those who describe the attackers as Americans and British are people who do not know what is going on in Westgate building," al-Shabaab's media office told Reuters. 'White widow?' A British security source said it was possible that Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of Germaine Lindsay, one of the suicide bombers who killed more than 50 people on London's transport system in 2005, was involved in the Nairobi siege. When asked about reports that Lewthwaite, dubbed the "white widow" by the British media, was directly involved in the attack in Kenya, the source said: "It is a possibility. But nothing definitive or conclusive yet." Lewthwaite is thought to have left Britain several years ago and is wanted in connection with an alleged plot to attack hotels and restaurants in Kenya. US security sources said they were looking into information from Kenya that residents of Western countries, including the United States, may have been among the militants. US President Barack Obama, whose father was born in the east African nation, offered help, saying he believed Kenya - the scene of one of al-Qaeda's first major attacks, in 1998, and a neighbour of chaotic Somalia - would continue to be a regional pillar of stability. Somalia's prime minister appealed in Geneva on Tuesday for international support to combat al-Shabaab but said a military solution to their insurgency alone was not enough. Abdi Farah Shirdon said: "We still have a difficult journey ahead of us. A military solution alone is not enough, promotion of rule of law, greater regional cooperation and economic stability and provision of public services are all key factors that complement the military effort." The attack on the mall is the worst such incident in Kenya since al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people when it bombed the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998. When fighters from its Somali ideological counterpart stormed the mall on Saturday, they hit a high-profile symbol of Kenya's economic power. Kenya has sent troops to Somalia as part of an African Union force trying to stabilise the country, which was long without a functioning government, and push back al-Shabaab. It has also suffered internal instability. President Kenyatta, who lost a nephew in the weekend bloodbath, faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his alleged role in coordinating violence after disputed elections in 2007. He denies the charges. British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said he believed six Britons had died in the attack. Other known foreign victims are from China, Ghana, France, the Netherlands and Canada. Kenyan officials said the total death toll was at least 62. Conflicting comments have fuelled speculation about the attackers' identity. While the foreign minister said there was a woman attacker killed, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku had said on Monday they were all men but some had dressed as women. - Reuters  OCD_OCD: Yes, we have our problems with "home-grown terrorists". Why we allow radical mosques here is beyond me. We are very "socially correct" and must not even let the thought pass our mind that the place to find radical terrorists is in a place where they might be found because that is "profiling".  Go figure. duncan124: Why is Serabi repeating old fake news items??? She also says "@Panda: I am very sorry but I have NEVER heard of 15 -25 men of any other colour except black that gang rape ...." The story about the Westgate shopping center is years old. Serabis first post did not show up except for a full stop, leading most people to think she had forgotten to post the words after the title. So the title attracted a anti-terrorism filter??? Serabi: WTF Duncan - the siege ended Y E S T E R D A Y . Read it slowly as I typed it slowly, just for you! JFO!!! Serabi: Kenya terror suspect claims to be South African 2013-09-24 09:14 Nairobi – A UK woman being sought by counter-terrorist officers in Kenya, has claimed to be a South African, reports said on Tuesday. The Guardian reported that Kenyan officials are investigating whether UK born Samantha Lewthwaite was part of a terror cell connected to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab, which planned to target the city of Mombasa in 2013. Lewthwaite is the widow of the King’s Cross bomber, Germaine Lindsay. Eric Kiraithe, a Kenyan police spokesperson, said that Lewthwaite has had three identities. Reports have emerged that the woman being sought was claiming to be Natalie Faye Webb, a South African, but it has been established that the passport she was carrying was fake. Early in January a Mombasa court issued an arrest warrant for Natalie Faye Webb, following an application lodged by the anti-terrorism police unit. The magistrate ordered that the “anti-terrorism police unit arrest Ms Natalie Faye Webb of Britain and a local Kenyan Habib Saleh Ghani with immediate effect". "Kenya cannot take any chance as far as acts of terrorism are concerned," she added. Based on her appearance, the names she used in Kenya and the number of children she has, the Guardian reported that there is strong circumstantial evidence that the woman is Lindsay's wife. Scotland Yard would not comment. Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officers have traveled to Kenya to help in the inquiry, and there have been ongoing attempts to trace Lewthwaite in the UK. Lindsay was one of four suicide bombers who detonated his rucksack bomb in London in July 2005. The 19-year-old blew up a Piccadilly Line train, killing 26 people. Lindsay met Lewthwaite, the daughter of a former UK soldier, through an internet chatroom, it was established at the 7 July inquest. The couple married in 2002, and had two children. After the bombing, Lewthwaite had a third child by an unknown father. The woman Kenyan police are seeking is suspected of linking up with other members of the terror cell in Mombasa. According to the Guardian, there are thought to be between 30 and 40 Britons at present fighting in Somalia with al-Shabaab. News24 duncan124: Just reread this part again,- She also says "@Panda: I am very sorry but I have NEVER heard of 15 -25 men of any other colour except black that gang rape ...." Either you ran in to something that might want you top stop and which waited to see or your using an odd computer. Your story is years old and might have stuck to who ever elses computer you have been talking to. Serabi: Nairobi mall siege: Al-Shabaab claims 137 killed 2013-09-25 10:58 Westgate attack: Kenya begins 3 days of mourning Nairobi - Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgents claimed on Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing. The al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in a message posted on Twitter, said "137 hostages who were being held by the mujahedeen" had died. They also accused Kenyan troops of firing "projectiles containing chemical agents" to end the four-day stand-off. - AFP | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |
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