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Kenya Hits Back at Al Shabab

Monday, November 24, 2014

Reports out of Kenya have more than 100 Al Shabab militants linked to a deadly attack on a bus killed by the Kenyan military. Kenya’s Deputy PresidentWilliam Ruto said the military had carried out two operations in Somalia, destroying equipment and a camp from which the bus attack was planned.

Ruto gave details of the military operation after attending a Sunday service at a church in Nyahururu. “I can assure you that those behind the attack did not even take their supper,” The Standard newspaper quoted him as saying. “They were killed by our officers who we sent out immediately after the attack. They did not find time to celebrate their heinous crime.”

Al Shabab denied the reports out of Kenya saying its fighters were safe. The militant group issued a statement saying that Ruto’s statement was “absurd” and said that its fighters “didn’t face any attack whatsoever,”

In northern Kenya on November 22 militants pulled non-Muslims passengers from a bus, killing 28 of them.

 


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