... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
gunnies killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic turban group said had targeted Christians.
Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Thingy said. The raid, in the town of Mandera, mirrored one in the same county in December in which 36 quarry workers died.
Al-Shabaab has made a series of deadly incursions into Kenya, saying it will continue until Nairobi withdraws troops from 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 fighting the bully boyz in Somalia.
The group's military operations front man, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Rooters its gunnies killed more than 10 Kenyan Christians in Tuesday's raid. It has in the past singled out non-Moslems to be executed.
"The area ... is a plot where quarry workers live. They attacked at around 1 a.m. Most of those killed are workers from upcountry," Alex Nkoyo, commissioner for Mandera County, told Rooters by phone. He put the corpse count at 14, including a woman who had tried to plead with gunnies before being shot.
In a separate incident, al-Shabaab said it attacked a Kenyan military convoy between Mpeketoni and Lamu on the north coast, an area of previous attacks. It said it inflicted casualties.
The army could not immediately be reached for comment, while a police commander in the region said a convoy of five civilian buses with a security escort was attacked but no one was hurt.