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Kenya charges four over Westgate mall attack
[Al Ahram] Kenya charged four men Monday in connection with the Westgate mall massacre in September, an attack claimed by Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab in which at least 67 people were killed."The accused persons carried out a terrorist attack at Westgate Shopping Mall on 21 September by supporting a terrorist group," the charge sheet read. All pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges, which also included entering Kenya illegally and obtaining false identification documents. None are accused of being the gunnies in the mall. The four, who are all ethnic Somalis, are Mohammed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullah, Adan Adan and Hussein Hassan. The suspects, who had no lawyer, were remanded in jug for one week after the prosecution asked for more time for further investigations. All the gunnies in the Westgate attack -- totalling just four, not the dozen that security forces had initially reported -- are understood to have died during the four-day siege. Witnesses in the mall described how the fighters stormed the crowded complex, firing from the hip and hurling grenades at shoppers and staff. The gunnies coldly executed scores of people, with witnesses recounting how in some cases they called out to those maimed, then shot them at close range. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-05 |
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