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| Kenya's military spokesman names attackers in Westgate Mall siege | |
| 2013-10-06 | |
| [Al Ahram] Kenya's military spokesman confirmed the names of the four attackers implicated in the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall, which killed more than 60 people last month. Major Emmanuel Chirchir confirmed that the attackers are Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene and 'Umayr.'
Little is known about their identity. Matt Bryden, the former head of the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia, said via email that al-Kene and Umayr are known members of al-Hijra, a Kenyan extremist group affiliated with Al-Shabab. He added that Nabhan may be a relative of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was the most-wanted al-Qaida operative in the region until he was killed in a 2009 strike led by Navy Seals. | |
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