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Passenger says Muslims protect Christians in Islamist attack on Ken
2015-12-22
Apparently a different attack than the one reported two articles down, but both were published on December 21.
[AlAhram] Somali Islamist forces of Evil sprayed a Kenyan bus with bullets on Monday, killing two people, but a passenger said he and fellow Muslims defied demands from the attackers to help identify Christians travelling with them.

The attack took place in Mandera, in northeast Kenya. A year ago, al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
gunnies stormed a Nairobi-bound bus in the same area and killed 28 non-Muslim passengers execution-style.

Abdi Mohamud Abdi, a Muslim who was among the passengers in Monday's incident, told Rooters that more than 10 al-Shabaab forces of Evil boarded the bus and ordered the Muslim passengers to split away from the Christians, but they refused.

"We even gave some non-Muslims our religious attire to wear in the bus so that they would not be identified easily. We stuck together tightly," he said.

"The forces of Evil threatened to shoot us but we still refused and protected our brothers and sisters. Finally they gave up and left but warned that they would be back," he said.

In previous attacks, al-Shabaab has often killed both Muslims and non-Muslims.

Julius Otieno, the deputy county commissioner, confirmed the account, saying that the forces of Evil "were trying to identify who were Muslims and who were not," and that the Muslim passengers had refused to help.

The forces of Evil then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, both men said.

Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab's military front man, said the group had fired shots at the bus.

"Some of the Christian enemies died and others were maimed," he told Rooters in a statement. The forces of Evil did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the role of Muslim bus passengers during the attack.

The 2014 bus attack shocked Kenya and led to a shake-up of security ministers. Since then, buses carrying passengers from Mandera have been given police escorts, but Kenya Police front man Charles Owino said that had not happened in this case because the bus had bypassed a police roadblock.

Owino said that in addition to the two deaths, four people were maimed.

Al-Shabaab has said it will continue its attacks on Kenya 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 forces of Evil in Somalia. It has also said northeastern Kenya should be part of Somalia.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  What does Barbie think about this attack on Ken?
Posted by: Bobby   2015-12-22 11:42  

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