Kenya: Explaining the Kenya Attack

22 September 2013
analysis

The siege by armed gunmen at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi should not come as a surprise. Unfortunately Kenya has long been a terrorist target.

Just over a month ago, US President Barack Obama and former president George W Bush attended a ceremony that marked the 15th anniversary of the 17 August 1998 bombings by al Qaeda of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed 224 and injured thousands.

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