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Kenya: Westgate mall attack

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What Is the Impact of Alshabab in Kenya?

i was joined by mary harper, the bby cs africa editor and author of a recent study of shabab called everything you have told me is true. So who was it from the samali bas group, al shebab, that carried out the attack? I mean, they were a very tiny group. There ware only four of them. At least one of them was actually from kenya. People associate alshabab with the country to mali, or its birthplace. But ever since alshebab really became a strong fighting force, it has had a present in kenyan soil. And there'sa big cohort of fighters who, it

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