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| Suspected leader of Nairobi mall massacre may have been trained by British military |
| 2013-09-29 |
| The suspected leader of the Nairobi mall massacre may have been trained by the British military, it was claimed yesterday. The Muslim convert known as Omar was killed at the end of the four-day Westgate siege by police and his former comrades in the Kenyan special forces. Anti-terror officers are looking into the records of special forces soldiers who left the Kenyan army around 2005 – and those who received specialist training from the British. Omar is one of at least two Christian converts to Islam who are said to have taken part in the slaughter of as many as 130 people by the Somali-based Al Shabaab terror group.Omar is said to have left Kenya for Somalia in 2005, where initially he joined a militant Islamist group before transferring to the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab, which was formed in 2006. Channel 4 said he used to teach Al Shabaab fighters martial arts and boxing at a training camp in Somalia. They say he fell out with the leadership because they thought he lacked sufficient ambition. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #1 Religion for sociopaths attracts sociopaths. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-29 01:26 |