With the attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall a year ago this weekend, Somalia's al Shabaab terror militia devastated Kenya's longstanding image as an oasis of peace in the eastern, Great Lakes and Horn of Africa regions.
So formidable was this image in the years since independence that not even such events and episodes as the Shifta secessionist war of the 1960s, the Palestinian terrorist bombing of the Norfolk Hotel in December 1980, the abortive military coup of August 1982 and the al Qaeda bombing of the US Embassy in 1998 could dent it.
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