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The service for the fallen in Kenya
Kenyan fighter jets bombarded militant camps in Gondodowe and Ismail, which are located in Gedo region at a distance of approx. 200 km from the border. Due to cloudy impossible to assess the scale of the losses suffered.
This is the leak Islamists attacked camps to Kenya to carry out attacks – reported by the Reuters news agency quoted a source in the armed forces.
Night operation Air is the first military response Kenyan authorities on Thursday Al-Shabab attack on a university campus in Garissie, which killed 150 people and approx. 80 people were injured. According to Al-Shabab was a retaliation for Kenya’s military participation in the African Union peacekeeping forces that fight with Islamists support the weak government in Mogadishu.
It was the deadliest attack on Kenyan territory since 1988. when the bombing of Al-Qaeda on the US embassy in Nairobi killed more than 200 people.
On Saturday, President Uhuru Kenyatta said the fight against terrorism and to punish the perpetrators of the attack. Also gave the government offered a prize of EUR 215 thousand. dollars for the capture of al-Shabab commander and possible attack Garissie organizer, Mohamed Mohamuda.
Previously announced Islamists that in Kenya unleash “a long and terrible” war, which will make the city in this country, “blood will flow.”
Despite the efforts undertaken by the Kenyan authorities have long been unable to stop the influx of militants Al-Shabaab through the porous, 700-kilometer border with Somalia. Since April of 2013. Jihadists from Somali guerrillas killed in Kenya, more than 400 people.
(RC)
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