{"id":37681,"date":"2013-09-23T07:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37681"},"modified":"2013-09-23T07:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:57:15","slug":"kenya-mall-attack-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37681","title":{"rendered":"Kenya mall attack continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite promises yesterday to end the stand off by the Kenyan government, the Westgate Mall in Nairobi is still being held by al-Shabbab terrorists. The casualty toll has stabilized, according to Fox News<\/a> at 68 dead and about 175 wounded. Sixty three are still missing. <\/p>\n

The source tells Fox News that the U.S. intelligence community believes the attack is a “hot” and “major event” because it is outside the normal scope of al-Shabaab and the alleged “multi- national character” of the attackers.<\/p>\n

New York Rep. Peter King, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d that al-Shabab is \u201cone of the only Al Qaeda affiliates which actually has actively recruited here in the United States.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN<\/a> wonders if the same thing could happen here in the US;<\/p>\n

It would not take too much sophistication to try a similar attack here, the official who spoke to Pamela Brown said.<\/p>\n

“The worst case scenario is a bunch of these kids coming back, buying weapons in the United States some place like Minneapolis or Chicago and going after one of our malls here,” Bob Baer, CNN’s national security analyst, said Sunday. “They are indefensible especially with a well-trained group. There’s nothing you can do about it. And I guarantee you that the FBI is going to be on it today.”<\/p>\n

In the past few years, federal prosecutors say they have thwarted two planned attacks on malls, each of which would have been carried out by single attacker….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tom Clancy, who predicted the use of commercial aircraft as terrorist weapons years before 9-11, also wrote about a fictional attack on several malls throughout the country a couple of years back. I went looking for Kenyan gun laws<\/a> to see if gun control could be a solution to preventing terrorist attacks here, but apparently, the Kenyan government requires registration and requires that a potential owner provide the government with an excuse to own a gun, like personal protection. They have to renew their registration every year. Those scary black guns that the media calls “assault rifles” are forbidden in Kenya. The government also restricts the number of guns and the amount of ammunition a licensed gun owner can have.<\/p>\n

So, unsurprisingly, Kenyan laws are much more restrictive than our own laws here in the US, basically, the Kenyan government has legislated that their citizenry become targets for people who don’t pay attention to their laws. <\/p>\n

The House Committee on Homeland Security reported in 2011 that an estimated 40 Americans have joined Al-Shabaab in the last few years, including 24 from Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

And so, federal law enforcement are working with the Somali-American community in Minneapolis to try to prevent other Al-Shabaab recruits from returning to the United States and committing similar acts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, they really don’t have to return if they never left, do they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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