A plume of black smoke billows over the Westgate Mall, in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Multiple large blasts have rocked the mall where a hostage siege is in its third day. Associated Press reporters on the scene heard multiple blasts and a barrage of gunfire. Security forces have been attempting to rescue an unknown number of hostages inside the mall held by al-Qaida-linked terrorists.(AP Photo/Jonathan Kalan)Armed police from the General Service Unit take cover behind a wall during a bout of gunfire, outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Sept. 23, 2013. Hostages being held by al-Qaida-linked terrorists in a Nairobi mall have not been released despite an earlier statement from the military that “most” had been rescued, a person connected to the situation told The Associated Press on Monday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Kenya security forces are seen behind a wall outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Monday morning, Sept. 23, 2013. Kenya’s military launched a major operation at the upscale Nairobi mall and said it had rescued “most” of the hostages being held captive by al-Qaida-linked militants during the standoff that killed at least 68 people and injured 175. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Nairobi Mall attackNairobi Mall Attack.Nairobi Mall attack.Nairobi Mall Attack.Nairobi Mall attack.Nairobi AttackHeavy smoke rises from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya, Sept. 23 2013. Multiple large blasts have rocked the mall where a hostage siege is in its third day. (Jerome Delay/AP Photo)Medics take cover behind a large tree as gunfire and explosions are heard from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya, Sept. 23 2013. (Jerome Delay/AP Photo)Nairobi Attack.
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.”
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.
OSAMA Bin Laden wished his wives not to remarry and his children not to join Al-Qaeda in a document, which is thought to be his will, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Aabaa reported on Tuesday.
The four-page document, dated Dec 14, 2001, three months after 9/11, was written on a computer and signed by Osama bin Laden himself as ‘your brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden.’
He feared he might be killed by a traitor. He also listed attacks on the New York Twin Towers and other suicide bomb attacks on US marines in Lebanon in 1983, the killing of 19 US marines serving as UN peacekeepers in Somalia in 1993 and the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi in 1998.
Among the accounts of violence, what stood out most was his last word to his family. He ordered his wives not to remarry and advised his children not to join Al-Qaeda or go to ‘the front.’ He also asked forgiveness of his children for not having spent enough time with them.
The report didn’t state how and when the document was obtained.
Saudi magazine Al-Majallah once published a similar paper in 2002, but it was deemed a fraud by a pro-jihadist website. — KOREA HERALD/ANN
Anne Dechauffour, 27, and her mother Corinne, 54, were among the first of at least 65 people to be gunned down by 
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