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Kenya: The Nation After Westgate - More Trouble Ahead
African Arguments, 27 September 2013
What does the appalling attack on people at the Westgate Shopping Centre signify? Does it mean that Al Shabaab is getting stronger or weaker? Read more »
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Kenya: Explaining the Kenya Attack
Chatham House, 22 September 2013
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. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya Terror Attack - Putting the Westgate Siege in Context
Fahamu, 26 September 2013
The Somali militant group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the September 21 attack at an upmarket shopping mall in Nairobi in which dozens of people were killed.… Read more »
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Kenya: Nairobi Attack Exposes Flawed U.S. Terror Policies
IPS, 24 September 2013
In the aftermath of the worst terror attack in East Africa in three years, foreign policy scholars here are urging the U.S. government to rethink its counter-terror policy in the… Read more »
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Kenya: Al Shabaab Leaps to Top of Jihadist Premier League
African Arguments, 24 September 2013
Noman Benotman, President of the anti-radicalisation Quilliam Foundation, has told African Arguments that Al Shabaab's Westgate attack has put it "to the top of the premier league"… Read more »
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Kenya: Islamists Demonstrate Their Power in Kenya
DW, 24 September 2013
The siege in Nairobi has claimed more than 60 lives. Terror organization al-Shabab is calling for the withdrawal of Kenyan troops from Somalia. Kenya is unlikely to bow to such… Read more »
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Kenya: Westgate Mall Tragedy Calls for a Measured Response
ISS, 24 September 2013
A radical military response to the dramatic terror attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi this weekend will play into the hands of the assailants. Using local police and… Read more »
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Kenya: Extremism Beckons Kenya's Young
IPS, 25 September 2013
Ali Hassan Gitonga, 33, a recent convert to Islam from the Meru community in Kenya's Eastern Province, is said to have travelled to Somalia for training with Al-Shabaab in 2011. He… Read more »