The FBI has know for years that Somali refugees are being radicalized in mosques here and it continues. Will this be another one of these " from now on, we are going to fix it" deals like Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRs etc, etc, etc,?
2 Terrorists dead in new Kenya blasts, FBI investigates US link

By Bob Fredericks and Post Wires
September 23, 2013 | 8:01am



Kenyan commandos are close to ending the bloody siege of an upscale Nairobi shopping mall, the country’s Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said Monday.
Islamist attackers are still fighting – and four large explosions could be heard from the complex – but the thugs have no way to get out, he said.

“We think the operation will come to an end soon,” Lenku said
“We are in control of all the floors, the terrorists are running and hiding in some stores… there is no room for escape.”

At least two of the gunmen were killed in the assault Monday morning and “several injured,” Lenku added.

Lenku also revised the death toll to 62. Kenyan officials earlier said 59 people were killed in the siege on the Westgate Mall. The Red Cross had put the toll at 68, then in a tweet lowered it to 62, saying some bodies had been counted twice.

Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents have claimed they are behind the carnage.
But Kenyan army chief Julius Karangi said the gunmen had different nationalities – without giving further details.

“They are from different countries. We have sufficient intelligence this is global terrorism,” Karangi said.

Several foreign fighters, including Somalis with dual nationalities, are members of the Shebab force, and news reports have said as many as five could be from the US.
Lenku also denied rumors that some of the insurgents were women.

“There are no women, all the terrorists are men. Some of them had dressed like women,” he said.

There was previous speculation that Britain’s “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite was involved in the attack. Lewthwaite is the widow of a suicide bomber who took part in the London 7/7 attacks of 2005.

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A plume of black smoke billows over the Westgate Mall, in Nairobi.AP

Reporters on the scene Monday heard multiple blasts and a barrage of gunfire, with black and gray smoke visible as the battle raged for a third day.

Soldiers on Sunday stormed the upscale Nairobi shopping mall, rescuing most of the remaining hostages.

The FBI was investigating whether Somali-Americans were among the terrorists, Fox News reported, while FBI agents and Israeli commandos were believed to have aided in the rescue mission.

“Most of the hostages have been released, and the Kenya Defense Forces has taken control of most parts of the building,” Kenyan military spokesman Col. Cyrus Oguna earlier told local television station KTN.

At least 10 hostages remained captive as dawn broke Monday in the Kenyan capital, the BBC reported. It wasn’t clear how many gunman were still inside.

Oguna added that “most probably,’’ some of the 10 to 15 terrorists — who specifically targeted non-Muslims — were killed after the soldiers stormed the Westgate Shopping Mall in a bid to end the bloody standoff.

Britain’s The Guardian newspaper reported that two Kenyan soldiers were killed when they came under heavy fire. Four other soldiers were wounded, according to a tweet from the KDF.

The State Department said no US citizens were killed, but the wife of an American working for the US Agency for International Development was slain. Five Americans were wounded.

The nephew of the country’s president, as well as the nephew’s wife, were among the dead.

The Associated Press released amateur video of the attack Monday, showing scared shoppers running and hiding in store aisles as the gunmen started blasting.

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A security officer takes cover following a string of explosions from Westgate Mall.Reuters

There were reports that Israeli commandos and the FBI assisted the Kenyan army in its assault on the mall, which is at least partially owned by Israelis.

“The Israelis have just entered, and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured,” a Kenyan security source told Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to confirm or deny its forces were involved, the newspaper said.

,US Rep. Peter King (R-LI) said Sunday that al-Shabab has recruited up to 50 people from Somali-American communities in the US for its operations.

The army’s rescue operation began shortly before sundown Sunday, with two helicopters circling to the mall and one skimming the roof.

A Kenyan soldier said that the terrorists were using a PKM belt-fed machine gun to defend their stronghold and that government forces were returning fire and conducting floor-to-floor sweeps as they closed in on the killers.

President Uhuru Kenyatta reiterated his government’s determination to continue fighting al-Shabab, vowing, “We shall not relent on the war on terror.”

http://nypost.com/2013/09/23/kenya-o...w-mall-blasts/