Kenyan Foreign Minister: Terrorists Included Americans

Posted by | September 24, 2013 09:29 | Filed under: War & Peace


Following more than a day of rumors about the nationality of some of  of the gunmen who unleashed a terrorist attack on an upscale Nairobi mall late last week, Kenya’s foreign minister Amina Mohamed told PBS Newshour that three are in fact American and one is British, and…

…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.”

There was no answer at the Kenyan Mission at the United Nations on Monday night.

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