Kenya Mall Siege Will Help Terror Group Recruit In US, Say Experts -- Joshua Rhett Miller, FOX News
The grisly massacre at an upscale Kenyan shopping mall by al-Shabab militants is a “great shot in the arm” to the Al Qaeda-linked group’s efforts to recruit fighters from the West, including the U.S., terror experts tell FoxNews.com.
At least 62 people have been killed and nearly 200 others were injured in the Saturday attack by al-Shabab, an extremist Islamic group believed to have roughly several thousand fighters, including a few hundred foreigners. Some of those include recruits from Somali communities in the United States and Europe and intelligence analysts said Monday those numbers could grow now that al-Shabab militants have attacked, running counter to the Obama administration’s claims that Al Qaeda and its global affiliates are weakening.
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Commentaries And Analysis On This Weekends Al Shabaab Attack On Kenya's Westgate Mall
Nairobi mall strike signals terrorist rise across Africa -- James Blitz in London and Javier Blas, Financial Times
Nairobi attack: Why Kenya and why now? -- Simon Allison, Daily Maverick
Why terrorists struck at upscale Kenyan mall -- Fredrick Nzwili, Christian Science Monitor
Al-Shabaab grew amid Somalia's lawlessness -- Tom Watkins, CNN
Al-Shabaab breaks new ground with complex Nairobi attack -- Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister, CNN
Al-Shabaab's American allies -- Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst, and David Sterman, Special to CNN
Kenya-style mall attack: Can it happen here? Smaller plots have been thwarted -- David Simpson, CNN
Why Israel is advising Kenya in mall attack response -- Josef Federman, Christian Science Monitor/Associated Press
Kenyans shaken as death toll in mall siege is expected to rise -- Geoffrey York, The Globe and Mail
Analysis: Nairobi mall attack strikes at Africa's boom image -- Pascal Fletcher, Reuters
The Security Lapses That Led to the Nairobi Mall Terror Attack -- Vivienne Walt, Time
Commentaries And Analysis On The Somali Terror Group Al Shabaab
Kenya Westgate Mall Attack: What Is Al-Shabab? -- Lee Ferran, Brian Ross, And James Gordon Meek, ABC News
How Dangerous Is Al-Shabaab, the Group Behind the Kenya Mall Massacre? -- Dana Liebelson, Mother Jones
Kenya Raid Is First Regional Strike by New Somali Militant Chief -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Kenya attack shows extreme jihadists now in control of al-Shabaab -- Patrick Martin, The Globe and Mail
Al-Shabab: The terrorist group behind the Nairobi mall attack, explained -- Douglas Quan, Postmedia News/Vancouver Sun
Factbox: Al Shabaab retaliates in Kenya for army offensives in Somalia -- Reuters
Kenya Mall Carnage Shows Shabab Resilience -- New York Times
The Militant Group Behind the Kenya Mall Attack Is Live-Tweeting the Massacre -- Slate
Factbox: All you need to know about al-Shabab -- AP/Reuters/SBS
Terror in Nairobi: Behind al-Shabab’s war with Kenya -- Time
Al-Shabaab: the rise of a youth-led Islamist movement -- The Guardian
A primer on al-Shabaab, the extremist group behind the Kenyan massacre -- AP
Kenya attack is product of brutal power struggle within al-Shabaab (commentary) -- The Guardian
A new source of terror: who are al-Shabab? -- Sydney Morning Herald
Al-Shabab: A look at the group claiming responsibility for Kenyan mall attack -- CTV
Who are al Shabab, the Islamist terror group that attacked -- First Post
Q&A on Kenya Terrorist Attack and Al-Shabaab -- Heritage Foundation
What is Al Shabaab and what are the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group's motives? -- ABC News (Australia)
How Al-Shabaab picks its targets -- Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
10 things to know about Somali militants al-Shabab -- NBC
Al-Shabaab grew amid Somalia's lawlessness -- Tom Watkins, CNN
We are losing fight against al-Shabaab -- Katherine Zimmerman, Special to CNN
Q&A: Who are Somalia's al-Shabab? -- BBC
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