Posted on 09/23/2013 1:19:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The stand-off in Kenya seems to be winding down, as a spokesman for the military reported a successful rescue operation that freed most of the hostages.
But the reported number of people killed in the terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya doubled in 24 hours to 68 on Sunday, while there were more than 170 reportedly wounded. Among them, at least five Americans, one of whom has a Bay Area tie.
Elaine Dang, 26, graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2009 before joining Teach for America. She most recently headed to Nairobi, now the general manager at EatOut Kenya, an online restaurant guide.
Dang tweeted a picture of herself and two friends, showing her head bandaged, with the caption, “Proof that I am OK - hanging out with some of my best friends in Nairobi.”
EatOut Kenya tweeted at NBC Bay Area, “she is absolutely fine and recovering well.”
A company representative also posted on Facebook, “Members of our team who were at the mall are all stable and being looked after. We have lost friends today and pray for the hostage situation to end.”
On Sunday, survivors of the attack were speaking out about living the unimaginable –listening for the gunfire and running for cover.
“You could hear, while we were back there, them methodically kind of going from store to store, talking to people, and asking questions, shooting, screams,” described Bendita Malakia. “Then it would stop for awhile, and they would go to another store.”
The grief overtook people in Nairobi, some people collapsing at the gates of a local mortuary.
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“I don’t know what I can say, because I have lost my friend,” said Wellington Shanzu, a former mall employee.
Meantime, political leaders made it clear they will fight back.
“The cowardly perpetrators now cornered in the building, we will punish the masterminds swiftly and indeed very painfully,” said Uhuru Kenyatta, the president of Kenya.
The governments of Australia, Canada, France and Britain were some that confirmed the deaths of their own citizens.
“It is an absolutely sickening and despicable attack of appalling brutality,” said David Cameron, the British Prime Minister. “What we know is that three British nationals have been killed. Because the situation is ongoing we should prepare ourselves for further bad news."
Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The group has threatened retaliation for Kenya’s role in fighting insurgents in Somalia, a neighboring country.
U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, condemned the attacks.
“It represents the seriousness and breadth of the challenge we face with ruthless and completely reckless terrorists," Kerry said. "We will pursue them.”
What I don’t really understand is how any one can make a living doing a food guide in Sub-Sahara Africa.
And we are paying the FBI to go there why?
I don’t want to pay for policing the world.
Who is John Galt?
I suspect that the FBI is going there to investigate the ties that the terrorists have with the US.
When they do the same in a mall here, you can play the “Who knew?” card.
Or the “Inside job by the US government” card.
Speaking of Who is John Galt, the freeper with that handle has been MIA since Dec of last year.
Its sounding like some of the gunmen may escape with the hostages..leaving their weapons behind.
You may have excellent SATs and a high GPA, Miss Genius, but you fail in Logic and History. You have been well brainwashed by your America-and-Christianity/Judaism-hating professors.
Not all Muslims are terrorists. But most terrorists are Muslims. Those who aren't Muslim, like the nutjobs in Sandy Hook and Aurora, are not doing it in the name of any religion, be it Christianity, or Buddhism, or Hinduism, or Zoroastrianism. But the Muslims ARE most certainly doing it in the name of Islam. Get it yet? Your naivete almost got you murdered. Wise up.
“We will pursue them”
Yeah, whatever, Kerry. Now, go back to sunning yourself on the boat. Hopefully, the Kenyans will get them first.
Oh, yes it does, sweetie. It knows the Muslim "religion" very well. It fastened itself to it centuries ago....and is still it's good buddy and guiding star.
However, the point here is that this dumbo-ette got injured and is STILL tweeting libtalk. She didn't learn a thing.
Next year we'll read about her being kidnapped from a hiking trail in some another neanderthal country populated by muzzie savages and terrorists.
She may not be so lucky next time....but I'll bet she'll be just as brainwashed about her captors and who they are.
As they say, liberalism is a mental disease....and those afflicted with it never listen or learn. I have no pity for them when they deliberatly challenge fate and lose, even when forewarned.
Leni
See my # 29 below.
Leni
And she was eight months pregnant.
What kind of animal shoots a woman who is eight months pregnant?
The Muslim kind. I guarantee you he didn't think twice about it. He probably even laughed about it later.
Relatives to the occupier of the White House for one.
i just picked up a 1/35 D9R armored bulldozer used by the IDF and US MARINES, my first thought was where do i find a 1/35 female figure to put under the front blade. i suspect i am not the only one.
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