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07-03-14, 17:04
06 Mar 2014 19:44 AFP

Gunmen involved in the Nairobi shopping mall attack were in apparent disagreement over whether they should kill women and small children.

Radical Islamist gunmen who shot dead scores of people in a Nairobi shopping mall last year were in apparent disagreement over whether they should kill women and small children, a court in Kenya heard on Thursday.

Witness Geoffrey Kotia, who was supervising children's activities in the upmarket shopping centre, said he was shot by the attackers, accused of killing Somalis and mockingly told to telephone Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for help.

"One of the attackers then said 'You people, we have been giving you chances to become Muslims but you don't, and instead you go ahead and kill our people'," Kotia told the trial of four men who are accused of helping the attackers.

Kotia then told the court that one of the attackers said "we Mujahedeen don't kill small children and women".

But seconds later another gunman said "but you have been killing our children and women in Somalia" and the shooting resumed.

Witnesses from the September attack, which left at least 67 dead including women and children, have previously said that some of the attackers allowed women and children to leave, while others were indiscriminate in their attacks.

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The attack was claimed by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab insurgents who are fighting to oust the country's internationally-backed government and African Union troops including Kenyan soldiers.

All the gunmen in the Westgate siege – understood to have totalled four, not the dozen that security forces initially reported – are believed to have died during the attack, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The trial in Nairobi, which opened on January 15, has heard evidence from people who were at the mall when the gunmen launched their attack, as well as witnesses involved in transactions related to the purchase of the car that the attackers used to drive to Westgate.

The four accused of providing logistical support – Adan Mohamed Abidkadir Adan, Mohamed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullah Omar and Hussein Hassan Mustafah – have all pleaded not guilty to charges of supporting a terrorist group.

The charge sheet gives no details of the nature of their alleged support, but security sources say the prosecution will argue they aided the gunmen, including by organising accommodation. – AFP

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In het kader van het korte geheugen van hijgerige nieuwsconsumenten :)

Vier mensen die zo'n slachting kunnen aanrichten. Een leger en politie die het halve winkelcentrum opblazen. We zullen wel nooit weten hoeveel slachtoffers zij gemaakt hebben.

Ik zie ook nog ruimte voor een theologische discussie over het vermoorden van vrouwen en kinderen :cheefbek: Asj-Sjabaab is er ook nog niet uit, begrijp ik.

super ick
07-03-14, 19:53
'We' moeten af van die drang om overal 'gerechtigheid te brengen. Onderaan de streep doen 'we' het qua mensenlevens slechter dan het kwaad dat we zgn bestrijden.
Saddam heeft een paar duizend doden op zijn geweten in Irak, het westen plm een miljoen.
Het westen heeft meer moslims gedood in Afghanistan dan er in onderlinge twisten zijn gevallen.
'We' hadden daar beter niets kunnen doen.