"Stop throwing grenades at buses," they said. "We need a huge blow against Kenya."
Everyone's a critic. More on this story. "Somalia's al Shabaab vows huge blast in Kenya," by Ismail Taxta and Abdi Sheikh for Reuters, October 27:
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab rebels called Thursday for supporters in Kenya to carry out a major strike in retaliation for a 12-day military incursion by east Africa's powerhouse.
Kenya has sent soldiers and heavy weapons into southern Somalia to crush the al Qaeda-linked militants Nairobi blames for a string of kidnappings on Kenyan soil and frequent border incursions.
Kenyan units have advanced on several fronts with Somali government troops and allied militias toward al Shabaab strongholds and a fighter jet bombed its port city of Kismayu on Sunday.
"The time to ask Kenya to stop war has passed. The only option is to fight them. Kenya, you have started the war and so you have to face the consequences," Sheikh Muktar Robow Abu Mansoor, a top al Shabaab official, told a demonstration.
An al Shabaab spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, told Reuters his fighters had struck four Kenyan military vehicles near a town called Tabdo inside Somalia Thursday.
General Yusuf Hussein Dhumaal, the head of Somali troops in the area, denied there had been any ambush or fighting. Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua declined to comment.
The al Shabaab official urged sympathizers in Kenya to shun the grenade attacks that hit the capital Nairobi Monday, killing one person and wounding 29. Police said Thursday that all but six of the victims had now returned home.
"The Kenyan Mujahideen who were trained by Osama in Afghanistan, stop throwing grenades at buses. We need a huge blow against Kenya. Hand grenades hurled can harm them but we want huge blasts," he told hundreds of people gathered in Elasha, near Mogadishu.
Jihad causes poverty:
Residents said al Shabaab had ordered them Wednesday to close businesses and attend the anti-Kenyan rallies.
The two grenade attacks on a bar and a bus terminus in downtown Nairobi have spooked Kenyans and security has been beefed up in the capital at hotels, government buildings, restaurants, bars and shopping malls.
All of these measures are costly, and a drain on resources. Even if al-Shabaab does not get a truck bomb into position, it has had an impact.
The blasts came two days after the U.S. embassy warned of an imminent attack. A Kenyan man has pleaded guilty to one of the attacks and being a member of al Shabaab.
Kenya's Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said two more people had been arrested over the attacks and were due to appear in court this week. He said the man who pleaded guilty went to Somalia in February and returned to Kenya in August.
The United Nations has warned that hundreds of Kenyan Muslims have been recruited by al Shabaab and that youth organizations have raised funds for the Somali militants.
A U.N. Monitoring Group report on Somalia published in July said al Shabaab had extensive funding, recruiting and training networks within Kenya.
Al Shabaab has yet to carry out a major strike in Kenya but has used suicide bombers to devastating effect in Somalia and Uganda -- whose troops are fighting the rebels in Mogadishu as part of an African Union force.
Twin suicide blasts in Kampala killed 79 people watching the soccer World Cup final last year and a truck bomb in Mogadishu killed more than 70 people earlier this month.
Unknown gunmen also attacked a vehicle in northeastern Kenya Thursday killing at least four government employees, local officials told Reuters. Media reports said they were targeted with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire.
Iteere said the vehicle transporting papers for school exams was attacked about 110 km (70 miles) from the northeastern town of Mandera, which is on the border with Ethiopia and Somalia.
Al-Shabaab may also decide Dar-es-Salaam is Dar al-Harb:
Kenya's southern neighbor Tanzania also issued a terrorism alert late Wednesday following the Nairobi attacks....
We want huge blasts.
Sounds like a scene taken from a Ron Jeremy porno. Now that I think about it, the Moslem theater is a hyperbolic remake of one, with huge blasts all over the place.
"We need a huge blow" !!!
OK, but... where is this instruction manual again?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/02/72-virgins-express.html
God! You incompetents! What a waste of all that zakat from those kuffar Americans! We spend all this money training you and luring you here and this is all we get!?
Jesus, next thing you know I'll catch you ignoring the rocks and trees calling out to kill the Jew hiding behind them!
What's wrong with you people? Am I the only one who understands The Prophet?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus
Eventually the nations surroudning Somalia are going to realise they're 100% justified in invading and parcelling up the land for themselves. People who can't keep themselves from attacking others have abdicated their right to sovereignty.
I kind of feel that colonialism was made for Muslim countries. They should be converted, if only to save the rest of humanity from Islam. They'll like pork...who doesn't?
"The time to ask Kenya to stop war has passed. The only option is to fight them. Kenya, you have started the war and so you have to face the consequences," Sheikh Muktar Robow Abu Mansoor, a top al Shabaab official, told a demonstration.
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And how did Kenya "start the war"? It wasn't by launching this 12-day military incursion, since this was a response to Somali raids into Kenya to kidnap aid workers.
So—the real "start of this war" was Kenyans *helping starving Somalis*.
Islam—where no good deed goes unpunished...
I hope this has nothing to do with that rumor that Jihadis have tiny...............
Hi all:
With regards to Somalia, the UN needs to revive the Trustee council. Then it should authourize Kenya and Ethiopia to administer southern Somalia until it become peaceful.
Also, if the West had a strategic vision, it would also restellte the displaced Mideast Christians to southern Somalia both to give them a new home as well as to be a sort of foreign legion that would destroy the jihadists there.
I'm sure that some of the Mideast Christians would love to give payback and they would be far more reliable and loyal with respect to NATO/Western military and police trainers
From the article:
"The United Nations has warned that hundreds of Kenyan Muslims have been recruited by al Shabaab and that youth organizations have raised funds for the Somali militants."
'Hundreds of Kenyan Muslims'.
*At least* hundreds. Probably more.
From the CIA factbook, a few stats on Kenya.
Total population - about 41 million.
Ethnicities - Kikuyu 22%, Luhya 14%, Luo 13%, Kalenjin 12%, Kamba 11%, Kisii 6%, Meru 6%, other African 15%, non-African (Asian, European, and Arab) 1%
Religion - Protestant 45%, Roman Catholic 33%, Muslim 10%, indigenous beliefs 10%, other 2%
note: a large majority of Kenyans are Christian, but estimates for the percentage of the population that adheres to Islam or indigenous beliefs vary widely
So - total identifying as Christian, 78 %; 10 % Muslims; trad beliefs 10 %, 'other' (this would include Hindu Indian immigrants - dda) 2 %.
That adds up to 90 % non-Muslims, 10 % Muslims.
10 percent Muslims is when Muslims really start throwing their weight around. And a lot of those Muslims are 'refugees' (i.e. de facto invaders or colonists on hegira from Somalia; Muslims mess their own nest and make it absolutely unliveable then swarm next door to repeat the process there).
But if the Kenyan *non-Muslims* recognise the danger, stick together, and refuse to give in to the Muslims, I think they have a chance of saving themselves and their country.
Memo to non-Muslim Kenyans. For all practical, political purposes, broadly speaking, Ockham's Razor says that the Muslims in Kenya are a semi-dormant volcano, a dangerousFifth Column which may erupt in Jihad at any moment.
The Muslim Brotherhood revivalists were busy teaching Islam pur et dur in Kenya in the 1970s when Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a teenager.
If the Kenyan authorities wish to head off future jihad attacks from within Kenya, their best bet is to swoop - with overwhelming force, and without prior warning - on every known mosque, imam's or sheikh's house, islamic school, 'Islamic community centre' and other Islamic institution in Nairobi (and preferably, depending on available resources, in other major population centres as well), ASAP, and search it from attic to basement, bearing in mind that there may be false floors and false ceilings and hidden safes, and not forgetting to take along dogs trained to sniff out drugs, explosives, and cadavers.
I think they'd find all sorts of interesting things.
About five years ago, I overheard some local Christians, back from a missionary tour of Kenya and Tanzania, complain of how difficult it was to compete for converts with the Muslims, who had many more resources at hand due to huge contributions from wealthy Saudi and Gulf Arab contributors.
gravenimage:
To the Muslim mind, the Kenyans really did start the war, in the same way that the Jews started the war against the poor old Prophet Mohammed when he made unprovoked attacks on them and stole the fruits of their labour.
You see Muslims are always the victims.
If a man rapes a woman, it's only because 'she started it' because she didn't escape from his advances in time and she tempted him in the first place. We in the West 'started it' by not being Muslims. The Israelis 'started it' by having the gall to defend themselves when they were attacked by the Arabs. Muslims are never to blame, they are always innocent. We are the guilty ones, the Prophet said so!
Oh god, APF - stop it! LOL!
Anyway - the Musloids are in hudna -
I say NATO blast away!
Might as well install another BS Sharia regime, by default, and by Obama's hand...
Softly Bob wrote:
gravenimage:
To the Muslim mind, the Kenyans really did start the war, in the same way that the Jews started the war against the poor old Prophet Mohammed when he made unprovoked attacks on them and stole the fruits of their labour.
You see Muslims are always the victims...
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Thanks for the response, Bob. You are quite right—I am definitely aware of the Muslim mind-set in this regard.
Also, remember—resisting Jihad is what "causes Jihad". We hear this logical fallacy all the time, as well...
It also allows Muslims—laughably—to claim that all of their sanguinary violence is "defensive Jihad", since they are always the "victims" of Infidel aggression—even if the only form of that "aggression" is openly existing as Infidels. If we had any sense, we would ignore this idiocy entirely.