Somali-based al-Shabaab has issued a statement Wednesday saying that
their attack in Kenya the day prior was targeted at the United States,
and was revenge for President Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Though not directly related to US policy in eastern Africa, the
Jerusalem policy is broadly unpopular across the Muslim world. Though
escalating US strikes on Somalia is already an explanation, al-Shabaab
likely believes that tying the attack to Jerusalem will lend them more
sympathy across the world.
The 20-hour siege by al-Shabaab has left at least 21 confirmed dead, with 50 others reportedly in the hotel complex at the time and so far unaccounted for. Kenyan officials say 700 people were successfully evacuated from the scene.
The number of attackers still isn’t entirely clear either, with the
attackers quickly splitting up and hitting different sites around the
complex. Clips show at least five attackers dressed in black, though it
is unclear if that was all of them.
Please do remember that Al Quaeda’s attacks on US of A were in response to US blind support of the colonial apartheid entity of Israel. Now this. We are the biggest poodle of the Zionists.
If you mean 9/11, that was an inside job; There’s no way 2 airliners could bring the Twin Towers falling into their footprints and sending up a mushroom cloud. Structural engineers who built those towers in the 1970’s fully agree with the inside job theory.
Jet fuel burns at about 800-1,000 degrees F; the explosives both the CIA and the Mossad used to bring the Twin Towers down burn at around 2,500 degrees F. 3,000 people of different nationalities (most of them Americans) perished in the attacks. The MSM still can’t truthfully explain the collapse of Building 7 around 5:30 PM that afternoon, just as it can’t explain the cancer deaths of surviving First Responders years after that event, either.
The US Gov’t”s explanation on the demise of the Twin Towers has already been debunked by the experts.
Little known is the fact that in July 1945 a US bomber crashed into the Empire State Building and doused it with aviation fuel. Yet the building did not collapse and was open for business two weeks later. There is a photo on Google showing half the fuselage sticking out of the building.
With regards temperatures ,only nano thermite used in anti tank armed piercing shells and incendiary bombs can produce temperatures above 25 degrees required to melt steel in only small spots. Nano thermite was found in the debris and hair and clothing of people who happened to be close to the building when it collapsed. An office fire cannot bring down a building (building 7) . No buiding would be accepted by any insurance co.
The bomber that crashed into the Empire State building was a B-25 Mitchell — maximum takeoff weight of 35,000 pounds and maximum fuel capacity of 1,066 gallons (if it carried an extra tank in the bomb bay).
The airliners that crashed into the two World Trade Center towers were Boeing 767s — ten times the maximum takeoff weight and three times the maximum fuel capacity of the B-25.
The World Trade Center towers were constructed with lightweight perimeter columns versus the large, heavy steel support columns dispersed through older the centers of older buildings like the Empire State Building.
That’s not to contest the question of whether the jet fuel fires could have brought down the WTC towers. But the two circumstances were entirely different. The Empire State Building is not a valid comparison. It’s like comparing a bug hitting your armored car’s turret to a brick hitting your Prius’s windshield.
I agree the two buildings were different. The WTC towers, also because of its height were specifically designed and built to withstand the impact of a plane crashing into the buildings They had enormously strong steel structural framework, unlike the Empire State Building which is also much older. Planes have aluminium bodies which cannot possibly crash through a steel framework.
It is believed that these planes were remote controlled and loaded with explosives. Witnesses have reported seeing “something” hanging under the planes. Thousands of architects, engineers , lawyers, firemen police officers and others have been clamouring for a reopening of the investigation.
The proper name is Al Quds (The Holy, en anglais).