Saturday, November 22, 2014

Somali terror group hijacks bus and kills every non-Muslim on board. Yahoo/AP

Al-Shabab fighters in training. 

The radical Islamic group Al-Shabab has killed 28 non-Muslims in a bus hijacking in Kenya. Yahoo/AP. Nineteen men and nine women were killed out of the sixty people on the bus. The bus was hijacked on the way to Kenya's capital Nairobi. The terrorists used rifle fire and an RPG to stop the bus before the executions. The attack is just one of a series of attacks by the terror group in Kenya, the most famous of which was the Westgate Mall attack. These attacks are in response to Kenya's military action against the Al-Shabab group in Somalia. 

My Comment:
Al-Shabab (also sometimes spelled Al-Shabaab for some reason that is beyond me) is one of the smaller terror groups but an important one none the less. The Westgate Mall attack was one of the larger terror attacks in recent history and their campaign against Kenya and any non-Muslim that happens to be there shows no sign of slowing down. It isn't surprising that a failed state like Somalia should spawn such a brutal terror group. There is nothing in Somalia save ideology and piracy. There isn't a way to make a legitimate living there and their government does not function. Plus it has been in a state of civil war for as long as I remember. 

Also, it seems to me that these guys aren't quite as brutal as ISIS is. If they had done this operation I doubt they would have spared the Muslims. Still, killing everyone that isn't your religion is a terrible crime. Hopefully this group gets destroyed soon. 

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