Matek
Now that the operation has ended, why am I still missing the numbers? How
many terrorists did we have? How many terrorists died and how many survived?
How many hostages did we have? How many hostages were killed by the
terrorists? How many hostages were killed by the government forces/Police
inclusive? How many hostages were set free?
Shouldnt these numbers be public today?
EM
On the 49th
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"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
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"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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Subject: [Ugandacom] Kenyan forces take control of shopping mall, rescue
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Kenyan forces take control of shopping mall, rescue hostages
DUNCAN MIRIRI AND JAMES MACHARIA
NAIROBI Reuters
Published Monday, Sep. 23 2013, 12:37 AM EDT
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-gunfire-smoke-erupt-on
-third-day-of-kenya-shopping-mall-standoff/article14462307/> Video: Gunfire,
smoke erupt on third day of Kenya shopping-mall standoff
Somalias al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has claimed responsibility for the
attack, which began at lunchtime on Saturday. Kenyan officials say there
were 10 to 15 attackers.
President Barack Obama offered U.S. support, saying he believed Kenya the
scene of one of al-Qaedas first major attacks, in 1998, and a neighbor of
chaotic Somalia would continue to be a regional pillar of stability.
Kenyan security forces believed the end was in sight for the siege at the
upmarket shopping mall in the capital, saying its forces were in control
as the ordeal entered its fourth day.
A government official said there was no resistance from the attackers late
on Monday night after a barrage of gunfire and blasts throughout the day,
but that the security forces were cautious in case some attackers were
hiding in the building.
Our forces are combing the mall floor by floor looking for anyone left
behind. We believe all hostages have been released, the Ministry of
Interior said on Twitter.
The siege has followed a pattern of bursts of gunfire and activity followed
by long lulls.
Patronized by well-to-do Kenyans and expatriates, Westgate mall epitomized
the African consumer bonanza that is drawing foreign investment from West
and East to one of the worlds fastest growing regions.
Al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people when it bombed the U.S. Embassy in
Nairobi in 1998. When fighters from its Somali ideological counterpart
stormed the mall on Saturday, they hit a high-profile symbol of Kenyas
economic power.
Obama, whose father was born in Kenya, said the United States stood with
Kenyans against this terrible outrage.
We will provide them with whatever law enforcement support that is
necessary. And we are confident that Kenya will continue to be a pillar of
stability in eastern Africa, he said in New York.
Kenya has sent troops to Somalia as part of an African Union force trying to
stabilize the country, which was long without a functioning government, and
push back al-Shabab.
It has also suffered internal instability. President Uhuru Kenyatta, who
lost a nephew in the weekend bloodbath, faces charges of crimes against
humanity at the International Criminal Court for his alleged role in
coordinating violence after disputed elections in 2007. He denies the
charges.
Kenyatta has dismissed a demand that he pull Kenyan forces out of Somalia,
saying he would not relent in a war on terror.
British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said he believed six Britons had
died in the attack. Other known foreign victims are from China, Ghana,
France, the Netherlands and Canada. Kenyan officials said the total death
toll was at least 62.
FOREIGN FIGHTERS
Kenya believes there are also foreigners among the attackers, with military
chief Julius Karangi saying they came from all over the world. We are
fighting global terrorism here, he said, without giving their
nationalities.
U.S. authorities are urgently looking into information given by the Kenyan
government that residents of Western countries, including the United States,
may have been among the attackers, U.S. security sources said.
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said he had no
direct information that Americans had participated in the attack, but
expressed U.S. worries.
We do monitor very carefully and have for some time been concerned about
efforts by al-Shabab to recruit Americans or U.S. persons to come to
Somalia, Rhodes told reporters travelling with Obama to the United Nations
in New York.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the militants had set fire to
mattresses in a supermarket on the malls lower floors and his ministry
later said the blaze was under control. Two attackers were killed on Monday,
taking the total of dead militants so far to three, he told a news
conference.
Speculation rose about the identity of the attackers. Ole Lenku said they
were all men but that some had dressed as women.
Despite his comments, one intelligence officer and two soldiers told Reuters
that one of the dead militants was a white woman. This is likely to fuel
speculation that she is the wanted widow of one of the suicide bombers who
together killed more than 50 people on Londons transport system in 2005.
Called the white widow by the British press, Samantha Lewthwaite is wanted
in connection with an alleged plot to attack hotels and restaurants in
Kenya. Asked if the dead woman was Lewthwaite, the intelligence officer
said: We dont know.
A spokesman for al-Shabab warned they would kill hostages if Kenyan troops
tried to storm their positions. The mujahideen will kill the hostages if
the enemies use force, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said in an online audio
statement.
>From Mali to Algeria, Nigeria to Kenya, violent Islamist groups tapping
into local poverty, conflict, inequality or exclusion but espousing a
similar anti-Western, anti-Christian creed are striking at state authority
and international interests, both economic and political.
John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, said he believed
insurgents such as those who rebelled in Mali last year, the Nigerian Boko
Haram Islamist sect and the Nairobi mall raiders were also partly motivated
by anger with what he called pervasive malgovernance in Africa.
This is undoubtedly anti-Western and anti-Christian but it also taps into a
lot of deep popular anger against the political economy in which they find
themselves, in which a very small group of people are basically raking off
the wealth, he said.
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This is a quote:
"Even if Joseph Kony was killed, that would not necessarily be the end of
the war in northern Uganda because Kony is no more than a spiritual
leader of the LRA. This quick fix, arm-chair solution seemed to be from the
Kampala-based opinion leaders who only know the war through newspapers".
" Until the legitimate grievances and the marginalization of northern
Ugandas communities are addressed, LRA fighters remain a possible vehicle
for the expression of northerners frustrations".
"Kony may never sign a peace agreement. Whether or not he signs, however, is
less relevant to avoiding new conflict in northern Uganda than ending
marginalization policies and fulfilling promises by the Ugandan government."
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