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Somali Terrorist Group Targets Western Shopping Malls In Call For Lone Wolf Attacks
IBT ^ | Feb 21, 2015 | Angelo Young

Posted on 02/22/2015 5:59:04 AM PST by KeyLargo

Somali Terrorist Group Targets Western Shopping Malls In Call For Lone Wolf Attacks

By Angelo Young

The al Qaeda branch in Somalia released a video Saturday celebrating the September 2013 attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed 60 people in a four-day siege. In the 66-minute video, unleashed on Twitter in both English and Arabic, al-Shabab called for attacks on specific targets in the U.S., Canada and Britain.

“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?”

The video raises concern it could help inspire lone-wolf attacks by radicalized individuals in these countries who are teetering on committing violent acts in the name of Allah. Online social media has helped widen the audience for Islamist propaganda despite efforts by Facebook and Twitter to weed out troubling broadcasts.

While social media sites are filled with militant Islamist propaganda calls for violence (such as how to make bombs in your mother’s kitchen or praising the usefulness of Honda motorcycles to commit terrorist acts), it’s unusual for terrorists to be so specific about civilian targets. News of the video was first reported by Bethesda, Maryland, SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors activities of extremist groups.

"The English-speaking narrator in this video sounds remarkably similar to the narrator from past Shabab releases,” SITE Director Rita Katz said in a report announcing the news Saturday.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alshabaab; attacks; banglist; homeland; isil; isis; islam; islamicterrorism; islamists; jihad; mallofamerica; malls; muslims; obama; politics; shopping; somalis; terrorists
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A still depicting the title sequence of a 66-minute video released Saturday by Somalia's al Qaeda-affiliated Shabab group extolling the September 2013 Kenyan mall siege. In it, a masked terrorist names specific shopping malls in the U.S., Canada and Britain, hoping for lone-wolf attacks. SITE intelligence Group

1 posted on 02/22/2015 5:59:04 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Terrorist attacks; otherwise depicted by Obama as random workplace violence.


2 posted on 02/22/2015 6:04:23 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise
Not to worry.

Shoppers are in good hands....

3 posted on 02/22/2015 6:07:28 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

4 posted on 02/22/2015 6:07:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KeyLargo

Mall of America is next door to Somali-infested Minneapolis.

Al-Shabaab is the main Somalian terrorist group.

What could go wrong?


5 posted on 02/22/2015 6:09:07 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: KeyLargo

For years I’ve wondered why our malls haven’t been attacked. Three or four jihadis could strike terror that wouldn’t be reversible and further show our governments’ weakness against Islam.


6 posted on 02/22/2015 6:09:47 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: KeyLargo
Wrong! I happened to catch a piece on CNN while getting coffee and it told me that Right Wingers are the biggest terrorist threat EVER! They had pictures of stuff and video of things that went along with it.

also, CNN repeated it 3 times within the ten minutes I was there so you know they're right

7 posted on 02/22/2015 6:11:10 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: KeyLargo
Q: How many Muslim "Lone Wolf" terrorists does it take before Media admits they are in fact part of a dangerous pack?
A: Infinite.

Q: How many TEA Party "Lone Wolf" terrorists will it take before Media calls out the name of the pack?
A: One.

8 posted on 02/22/2015 6:12:15 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: KeyLargo

I pray this does not happen, but if it does... I have a feeling the Muslims in this country will want to get out pretty darned quick. Problem for them is, I don’t believe they’ll have time.


9 posted on 02/22/2015 6:13:11 AM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: elcid1970

The attacks will more than likely occur in states that don’t have many CCW and restrictive gun laws.
Gun Free Zones are preferred to taking their chances in the south where they would likely be killed shortly.


10 posted on 02/22/2015 6:14:58 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: JimSEA
For years I’ve wondered why our malls haven’t been attacked. Three or four jihadis could strike terror that wouldn’t be reversible and further show our governments’ weakness against Islam.

Perhaps they haven't because it WOULD strike terror.

It would strike terror into the hearts of women who shop at those malls, many of them Democrats. Terror that would make the women demand expulsion or extermination of all Muslims in the US.

Don't mess with women shoppers.

11 posted on 02/22/2015 6:21:06 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: KeyLargo

This kind of an attack and an attack on a school is what I have longed feared as I’m sure many people have feared as well. Imagine the chaos and outcry if something like Beslan or Westgate happens. It would change everything.


12 posted on 02/22/2015 6:21:38 AM PST by Non sibi sed patriae
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To: NativeSon

13 posted on 02/22/2015 6:21:40 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Mathews

What makes you think something would happen to them if another attack occurs? The admin will do what they can to protect and defend their actions. The nation is just not ready to fight back. Now I say that as there are Somali shops literally right outside my window. We’re not ready to fight because we’re still being told they aren’t a threat.


14 posted on 02/22/2015 6:22:27 AM PST by tenger (It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)
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To: Mathews

“I pray this does not happen, but if it does... I have a feeling the Muslims in this country will want to get out pretty darned quick. Problem for them is, I don’t believe they’ll have time.”

As long as Obama has their back and the Muslim Brotherhood have infested the White House, Muslims have no worry’s since they are portrayed here as ‘victims’.

Islamic group rips District 230 response to graffiti threats
Mike Nolan

Feb 21, 2015

An Islamic rights organization is criticizing Consolidated High School District 230 officials for too quickly dismissing graffiti threats targeting Arabic and Muslim students that were found this month on restroom stalls at Sandburg High School.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/


15 posted on 02/22/2015 6:28:14 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: tenger

And when someone with political or media links dies in one of these attacks, what then? Are they going to be covering for these freaks until the blade is at their own throats?


16 posted on 02/22/2015 6:30:35 AM PST by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: KeyLargo

My gosh... I’d have to GO TO A MALL TO be worried. Target, Burlington Coat, WalMart, BigLots or Lowes aren’t in malls...


17 posted on 02/22/2015 6:31:04 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: elcid1970

Not to worry — these Somalians have been thoroughly westernized after arrival in Minesoooooota.


18 posted on 02/22/2015 6:32:11 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: BitWielder1

February 22, 2015
Maybe we should defund Homeland Security after all
By Rick Moran

The Department of Homeland Security is up to its old tricks, warning police departments across the country of the threat of “right wing” terrorism.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/maybe_we_should_defund_homeland_security_after_all.html


19 posted on 02/22/2015 6:32:38 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Right in the heartland of Somali muslim America.


20 posted on 02/22/2015 6:33:10 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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