“Kenya shopping centre attack” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24189669
Guy Alexander “Dozens die as Islamic militants attack Kenyan shopping mall” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/kenyan-shopping-mall-attack-dead
ケニアのナイロビのショッピング･モールをテロリスト集団が襲撃し、少なくとも39名が殺害された。犯人たちはまだ人質とともにモールに籠城している*1。ケニアの隣国ソマリアの某イスラーム主義グループが犯行を主張している*2。
『オブザーヴァー』の記事から少し引用；
Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attacks via a Twitter account. The spokesperson claimed the atrocity was in response to the presence of Kenyan troops in Somalia: "The attack at #WestgateMall is just a very tiny fraction of what Muslims in Somalia experience at the hands of Kenyan invaders," the account stated. "For long we have waged war against the Kenyans in our land, now it's time to shift the battleground and take the war to their land." It continued by saying that the Kenyan government was "pleading with our mujahideen inside the mall for negotiations. There will be no negotiations whatsoever.
ソマリア大統領の反応；
Kenya has been braced for an attack of this kind since it controversially intervened in the war against al-Shabaab in Somalia by sending an expeditionary force in 2011. Since then Kenyan troops have succeeded in expelling the jihadists from the southern Somali port city of Kismayo and installing a former warlord friendly to the government in Nairobi.
因みに、今回襲撃されたモールはイスラエル資本の所有である。
Somalia's president – the leader of a country familiar with terrorist attacks – said his country knows "only too well the human costs of violence like this" as he extended prayers to those in Kenya."These heartless acts against defenceless civilians, including innocent children, are beyond the pale and cannot be tolerated. We stand shoulder to shoulder with Kenya in its time of grief for these lives lost and the many injured," President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said.
テロの具体的な様子については、
Guy Alexander “Kenyan mall shooting: 'They threw grenades like maize to chickens'” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/nairobi-shopping-centre-terror-attack
犯行を主張するAl-Shabaab については、
Guy Alexander “Al-Shabaab: the rise of a youth-led Islamist movement” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/21/al-shabaab-rise-youth-fighters-islamist-movement
*1:"Nairobi attack: 'Hostages remain inside shopping centre'" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24193059
*2:See also "Somalia's al-Shabab claims Nairobi Westgate Kenya attack" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24191606
