2) Today’s #Shabaab attack in #Nairobi #Kenya—the casualties of which not yet known—comes roughly five years after the group’s infamous attack at #Nairobi ’s #Westgate shopping mall on September 21, 2013, highlighting how much of a deadly threat the Shabaab remains to this day.
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3) Today’s attack in
#Nairobi comes exactly two years (to the day) after its major attack on the#Kenyan military base in El Adde in#Somalia’s#Gedo regionhttps://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Statements/shabaab-updates-death-toll-in-kenyan-base-raid-to-100-claims-capturing-soldiers.html …Diesen Thread anzeigen -
4) Worth noting once more that the
#Shabaab remains#alQaeda’s most active affiliate, consistently claiming the most attacks & suicide operations while maintaining the largest swathes of territory. Group also focusing on spreading to neighboring countrieshttps://twitter.com/Rita_Katz/status/967128567137095682 …
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5) Update:
#Shabaab issues update of its attack, stating that “fierce clashes are continuing” and calling the location “one of the most opulent areas of the Kenyan capital...where offices of international representatives are present.” Still no casualty counts provided as of yetpic.twitter.com/lAcB2lvwRi
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6) Update:
#Shabaab continues to comment on today’s attack in#Nairobi#Kenya, stating that “Nearly seven hours after Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement fighters launched the attack…clashes are still taking place” and have so far killed “at least 47” https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Statements/breaking-the-shabaab-al-mujahideen-claims-credit-for-dusitd2-hotel-attack-in-nairobi.html …pic.twitter.com/MmyfgrLBZx
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7) Update 9/16: Shabaab says attack started w car bomb, after which fighters stormed building, killing 47 so far (vs 15 acc to Kenyan press). Says compound “frequented by foreigners & international actors” to justify soft targets, esp after its unclaimed Oct2017 Mogadishu bombingpic.twitter.com/VeO8GsU5QY
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8) Among those killed was an American business investment adviser and former Peace Corps member named Jason Spindler who, according to his mother, wanted to “make positive change in the third world.”https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/kenya-american-jason-spindler-killed/index.html …
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#Shabaab, just as opportunistic as it is dangerous, uses its#Nairobi attack to capitalize on Palestine issue by pointing out one attacker’s bandana reading “heading to Quds [#Jerusalem],” stating the attack “was directly related to”#Palestine and Trump’s support for Israelpic.twitter.com/0K2705IDDR
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10) First official statement from the
#Shabaab on the DusitD2 hotel attack in#Nairobi#Kenya, titled "Jerusalem Will Never Belong to the Jews," is forthcoming. So far, the Shabaab's Shahada News Agency has been the only entity to claim and report on the attack on its behalf.pic.twitter.com/QLtaLbf2Gj
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11) Capitalizing on Palestine, Shabaab declares
#Nairobi attack—as per AQ leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s directive to target Western & "Zionist" interests—to be a “response to... president Donald Trump & his declaration of [Jerusalem] as the capital of Israel”https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Statements/shabaab-declares-nairobi-operation-as-following-zawahiri-s-directive-response-to-trump-s-jerusalem-declaration.html …Diesen Thread anzeigen
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