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Kenya convicts 3 in Garissa terrorist massacre case
[DW] Three men have been convicted for supporting the 2015 Garissa University terrorist attack in Kenya. Though they were not among the button men, the trio knew the al-Shabaab
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
assault would happen.


Three members of the bad boy Somali group al-Shabaab were found guilty by a Nairobi court on Wednesday of conspiracy to commit a terror attack in the 2015 assault at Garissa University in northeast Kenya that killed 148 people.

Kenyans Mohammed Ali Abikar, Hassan Edin Hassan and Rashid Charles Mberesero, a Tanzanian, "were members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group whose members carried out the attack," Judge Francis Andayi said. The men knew the attack would happen and did not inform authorities, the judge added.

A fourth defendant was acquitted. A fifth accused was acquitted earlier this year. The guilty will be sentenced in July.

Four button men from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group rampaged through Garissa University on April 2, 2015, before being killed by security forces the same day.

The snuffies separated the victims according to religion, letting Moslems free while killing Christians. Most of those killed were students.

The operation's suspected planner, Mohammed Mohamud, also named "Kuno," was killed in a joint US-Somali military operation in southwestern Somalia in 2016. al-Shabaab said he as killed by "US Crusaders."

Al-Shabaab is fighting to overthrow the government of Somalia, but regularly carries out attacks in Kenya, which has troops in its neighbor as part of an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
force.

The Garissa University attack was the second-deadliest terror attack in Kenya after the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998. The al-Qaeda attack killed 213 people.

In 2013, al-Shabaab snuffies killed 67 people at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi. In January 2016, al-Shabaab attacked a Kenyan army outpost in southern Somalia, killing as many as 180 soldiers.

Earlier this year, another al-Shabaab attack on a Nairobi hotel killed more than 20 people.

US special forces are supporting Somali government forces and African Union troops fight al-Shabaab, with regular drone and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the bad boys.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-21
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