trip to Kenya?

eg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30288137
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/11/killed-kenya-bus-attack-201411226446296802.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24617763

And also put one in LBN. The post was locked but there is some additional information

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141056455

It looks like, yet again, women are the real target. Education and women. Over 500 women are missing.

And men have been every bit the target as well, as long as they are Xian men. The XX/XY split depends on the target. Mall, bus, campus, some other facility. The thing they all have in common is that they're public and weakly defended.

It's payback for some perceived attack or wrong on Muslims. But it also counts as ethnic cleansing since the area is Muslim majority and Muslim-"state"-adjacent.

But when it comes to hostages, I don't think that it's equal. From the stories I have read, females are more often taken hostage and then used for whatever horrific purpose they see fit.

Regardless, these religious wars are growing. I don't know what the answer is but it has to end

That is not simply an incidental component of the story and it should not be treated as such.

It must be very disappointing for the mothers of these worthless fuckwad religious murderers.

Oh. My. God. It was a bloodbath.



Despicable.

There's staff there as well as the students, of course, but it is a huge part of the people there. They went to murder as many as they could.

...and I'm sure the killers are not "real" Muslims, either.

The gunmen divided students at the university between Muslims and non-Muslims, letting the Muslim students go, the group's spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told AFP news agency by telephone.

"Westgate Mall Attack Has Roots in Kenya's Intervention in Somalia"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/kenya-westgate-mall-attack-somalia

The situation at the Westgate mall in Nairobi is the latest manifestation of the increasingly tangled ties between Kenya and its anarchic Horn of Africa neighbour Somalia.

Somalia has been without a recognised central government since 1991, when President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown. The country has since splintered under the control of various groups, including transitional federal institutions and the Islamic Courts Union – which at one point controlled much of south and central Somalia. There are also the breakaway states of Somaliland, Puntland and Jubaland.

Successive international interventions, including the African Union mission in Somalia (Amisom), Kenyan and Ethiopian armed forces, and the most recent United Nations assistance mission in Somalia (Unsom), deployed in July, have all failed to contain the security situation in the country.

Many blame international involvement, including by the US, for exacerbating the situation by picking sides in the conflict and pitting factions against one another. The rise of al-Shabaab – an al-Qaida inspired group that emerged from the courts movement in retaliation against what was seen as the interference of foreign powers – has brought an increasingly unpredictable element to the conflict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Linda_Nchi

Operation Linda Nchi[49] ("Protect the country";[50] Swahili: Linda Nchi[51]) is the codename for a co-ordinated military operation between the Somalian military, the Kenyan military and the Ethiopian military that began on 16 October 2011, when troops from Kenya crossed the border into the conflict zones of southern Somalia.[52][53] The soldiers were in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants that are alleged to have kidnapped several foreign tourists and aid workers inside Kenya.[54] According to the Ethiopian Foreign Minister, the operation represents one of the final stages in the Islamist insurgency of the Somali Civil War.[55]

<snip>

In March 2012, Colonel Cyrus Oguna, head of the KDF's Information and Operations sector, indicated that Operation Linda Nchi was about to end, as Kenyan troops were set to re-hat under the African Union's general command.[83] On 31 May 2012, the BBC reported that Kenyan soldiers, acting as AMISOM's southern contingent, assisted Somali government forces in capturing Afmadow from Al-Shabaab, a southern town considered important in the military campaign owing to its network of roads that grant access to many different parts of the country.[31] Kenyan forces were officially integrated into AMISOM in early June.[84]

<snip>

According to the Associated Press, Kenya had not "actively engaged" in the conflict in southern Somalia prior to this operation.[87] According to a correspondent with The Independent, Kenya had previously been supporting at least two militias in southern Somalia in a proxy war against Al-Shabaab, but moved instead to a direct presence of Kenyan troops once that strategy had failed.[65] Kenya's military is regarded as inexperienced and reporters voiced doubts that it has the capacity to conduct the required logistical operations.[68] A joint communique issued on 31 October by the Kenyan and Somalian governments stated that the Kenyan forces were fully co-operating with Somali forces in a TFG led operation.[1]

An African Union initiative called for the Kenyan soldiers to eventually be brought under AMISOM's command.[77] On 12 November, the Kenyan government released a statement announcing that it had approved the re-hatting of its Kenya Defence Forces under AMISOM. Analysts expect the additional AU troop reinforcements to help the Somalian authorities gradually expand their territorial control.[88]

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On 28 September 2012, Kenyan AMISOM forces, assisted by forces from the Somali National Army and the Ras Kamboni militia, launched an amphibious offensive on Kismayo, the last Al-Shabaab controlled city.[120][121] Al-Shabaab forces withdrew from the city the next day, with the AMISOM forces later moving in.[122]

In September 2013, the Westgate shopping mall shooting in Nairobi was reportedly in retaliation for the Kenyan troop presence in Somalia and followed Al-Shabaab warnings that it would attack.[123]

And anyone that behaves in such murderous fashion as they do. Humanity will prevail over these simplistic and abusive fucktards.

Just saying

Or is that only when the west gets attacked by terrorists?

Move along, nothing to see here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1057049

page of LBN..

The President's statement..


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http://theobamadiary.com/2015/04/03/a-tweet-or-two-277/

Mahalo Bosonic

Sadly, I think more is to come, especially after watching last week's VICE. The "war on drugs" is funding, in part, terrorism, especially in Africa.