http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/10/kenya_names_4_jihadists_involv.php
“Kenya names 4 jihadists involved in Westgate mall assault”
By BILL ROGGIO
October 5, 2013 4:06 PM
The Kenyan military has named four members the Shabaab suicide assault team that attacked the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya two weeks ago. Among the four named Shabaab members is a Sudanese man who is said to have led the team. No Westerners have been named so far.
From Reuters
Major Emmanuel Chirchir, the spokesman for the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), named the four as Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and Umayr.
“I confirm these were the terrorists. They all died in the raid,” Chirchir told Reuters, citing the findings of the KDF and national intelligence bodies.
SNIPPET: “It is unclear if Kenyan forces have captured or recovered the bodies of other members of the assault team that attacked the Westgate. Between 10 and 15 fighters, split between several teams, are thought to have executed the attack, but there are credible reports that at least two fighters may have changed clothes and escaped during the confusion of the attack. Additionally, the Kenyan government claimed that nine people who are thought to be involved in the attack are in custody, but it is unclear if they were involved in the fighting or are part of the logistics and support network.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4185/column-terror-attacks-by-any-other-name
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Column: Terror Attacks by Any Other Name”
by IPT News • Oct 15, 2013 at 1:08 pm
SNIPPET: “In Nairobi, well-armed gunmen stormed a shopping mall intending to kill as many people as possible. They asked victims about their religion, sparing the lives of Muslim shoppers.
At least 67 people were killed in the attack. The world rightly sees this as an act of terrorism.
Six years earlier, a well-armed gunman stormed a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, intending to kill as many people as possible. Witnesses say he shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — or “Allah is greatest!” as he opened fire, killing five people before being shot by an off-duty police officer.
Described as a religious Muslim, the gunman reportedly bragged of a jihadist grandfather and attended a mosque suspected of radicalizing him.
Sulejmen Talovic’s February 2007 attack is not classified as a terrorist attack, but rather cast as “the act of a madman.” In a New York Post column Sunday, writer Paul Sperry wonders why. And he points out that fears of a terrorist attack on an American mall, based on the Kenya attack by the Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab, ignore the fact that such attacks already have happened here.”
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http://nypost.com/2013/10/12/could-the-kenya-mall-attack-ever-happen-here-it-already-did/
“Could the Kenya attack happen here? It did”
By Paul Sperry
October 12, 2013 | 9:45pm
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Previously....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1795284/posts
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5353807
“Pain, loss and hope”
BY JULIA LYON
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED MARCH 4, 2007 12:56 AM
SNIPPET: “But it was closing time at Trolley Square, and they were told to come back. The next day, Feb. 12, Talovic would kill five people, wound four and die at the hands of a police SWAT team.”