Posted on 02/22/2015 12:49:48 PM PST by marktwain
A Somali affiliate of al Qaeda has called for attacks against Western shopping malls, which they see as soft targets. The call for attacks was seen in a video celebrating the attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. From ibtimes.com:
If just a handful of mujahedeen [militant jihadists] fighters could bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, just imagine what the dedicated mujahedeen could do in the West to American or Jewish shopping centers across the world, a masked gunman says toward the end of the video. What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London's Oxford Street?England is notorious for the number of radicalized Muslim immigrants that are in the country, as is Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a large population of Somali Muslims has been imported and resettled by the American government. Edmonton, Canada, also has a significant population of Somali Muslim immigrants from which jihadis are being recruited.
At some time, people have to recognize that, with just two exceptions, at least since 1950, all the multiple victim public shootings in the United States have taken place where guns are banned. And you see these individuals, they surely act as if they're trying their best to find areas where victims can't defend themselves.But Lott does not examine the effect of the gun ban signs' prominence or visibility. Could it be that the attackers simply did not know that guns were banned in the area of their planned attack? Wouldn't the large, highly visible signs at the Mall of America offer more protection? I found this documentary on YouTube:
Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said today the U.S. and the rest of the democratic world is at a security crossroads in the wake of last months deadly al-Shabab attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya and suggested an answer could be in arming civilians.Any evaluation of Mall of America security, in the face of the clear and present danger of a jihadi attack, should take the large and prominent Gun Free Zone signs into account.
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Noble said there are really only two choices for protecting open societies from attacks like the one on Westgate mall where so-called soft targets are hit: either create secure perimeters around the locations or allow civilians to carry their own guns to protect themselves.
Societies have to think about how theyre going to approach the problem, Noble said. One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target youre going to have to pass through extraordinary security.
What is the difference about whether they do it here or in Somalia. . . they kill their own all the time.
Exactly.
Malls were already on death watch even before this BS.
Check your REITS and bail out ASAP.
We had one of those types of signs at my office building. After the CT school shooting the manager of the building was asked if he was legally assuming responsibility for our safety in light of those signs. They came down the next day.
‘I HATE going to those places’ - - -
My spouse never goes to malls - with the exception to buy this very computer, and since then - never.
Whew. I feel safe. At least they can still bring pipe bombs, weaponized anthrax, grenades, and propane based IEDs.
That's IT! Make them bigger, that will do the trick. /sarc.
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