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Monday, September 23, 2013
Americans, Briton among Kenya mall attackers: Minister confirmed
According to Kenya Foreign Minister, Amina Mohamed, two or three young American men and a British woman were among the group of attackers who stormed a Nairobi mall killing more than 60 people.
She was interviewed by US public broadcaster PBS and was asked about reports Americans and Britons were among those to blame for the carnage.
“Yes,” Mohamed said. “From the information that we have, two or three Americans, and I think so far I have heard of one Brit.” The Briton was a woman, Mohamed said.“Woman. Woman. And she has, I think, done this many times before,” she told PBS.“The Americans, from the information we have, are young men, about between maybe 18 and 19,” she said, adding they were of Somali or Arab origin but “lived in the US, in Minnesota and one other place.”“So, basically, look, that just was to underline, I think, the global nature of this war that we’re fighting,” Mohamed added.
Meanwhile, the Kenyan interior ministry announced that troops were “in control” of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, with all the hostages trapped by Islamist gunmen believed to have been freed.
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