Archive for July 21st, 2010
African Jihad Spreading: Al-Shabaab in Deadly Kenyan Border Attack
Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda – and now Kenya – it seems that no African nation is off-limits for Islamic Jihad:
Kenyan security forces on the border with Somalia have clashed with suspected members of the al-Shabab group, officials and residents said.
Wilson Murungi, the commissioner of Lagdera, said al-Shabab fighters ambushed a Kenyan border patrol and wounded one officer [Updated - one officer injured and one dead - Ed].
“The attack was not a raid inside [Kenya]. Our officers were attacked as they conducted a normal patrol. The armed group fired at them on the other side of the border,” Murungi said. Read the rest of this entry »

