That the Kenyan attack in the shopping mall is raging is known.
What is being lost amidst this den is the fact there were American Militants though the US is claiming that there were no Americans.
Probably the US is learning from China denying everything from earthquake as though it is the Administrations fault!
Truth may emerge but the involvement of Americans will remain in the realm of speculation.
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Two or three Americans and one Briton were among those who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, Kenya’s foreign minister said Monday.
More than 60 people have been killed in the assault on the upscale mall, which has lasted for three days. The foreign minister, Amina Mohamed, said in an interview with PBS’ “NewsHour” program that the Americans were 18 to 19 years old, of Somali or Arab origin and lived “in Minnesota and one other place” in the U.S. The attacker from Britain was a woman who has “done this many times before,” Mohamed said.
Authorities in Kenya were trying to wrap up their bloody standoff with al-Shabab, a group allied with al-Qaida.
U.S. officials said they were looking into whether any Americans were involved. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday the department had “no definitive evidence of the nationalities or the identities” of the attackers.
White House spokesman Ben Rhodes said U.S. officials have seen “reports coming out of al-Shabab that indicate information along those lines,” referring to possible involvement of Americans in the attack.
“But we have to run those to ground, of course,” he said. “We do monitor very carefully and have for some time been concerned about efforts by al-Shabab to recruit Americans or U.S. persons to come to Somalia.
“This is an issue that has been tracked very closely by the U.S. government, and it’s one that we’ll be looking into in the days ahead.”
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A London-based French model who hoped to become the next “Gisele Bundchen” and her artist mother were the two French victims of the Nairobi attack.
Henry Samuel, our correspondent in Paris, writes:
Anne Dechauffour, 27, and her mother Corinne, 54, were among the first of at least 65 people to be gunned down by Al Shabaab militants at the Westgate complex – shot just after parking their car at the mall.
Ironically, the daughter had recently written and acted in a short film about a hostage taking.
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