It's not over, Somali terrorists say after mall attack that killed 67
That was the message terrorists of Al-Shabaab gave to Kenya
on Wednesday, as officials still sorted through rubble and clues left in the
wake of the recent massacre that took 67 lives at a Nairobi shopping mall. The
Somali militant group handed the threatening statement to regional media,
starting on September 21, Al-Shabaab fighters spread gunfire and flames through
Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall, leaving it partially destroyed, stained in
blood and littered with bodies. Military doctors said militants severed hands,
cut off noses and, in some cases, hanged hostages.
Last year, the Kenyan military was part of a peacekeeping
force that defeated Al-Shabaab forces to liberate the key Somali port ofKismayo. Since Kenya launched attacks against Al-Shabaab in Somalia in 2011,
the group has hurled grenades at Kenyan churches, bus stops and other public
places. The mall attack was the deadliest terror attack in Kenya since al Qaeda
blew up the U.S. Embassy there in 1998, killing 213 people.
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