Suspected Islamic extremists killed six people in an attack in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, an official said Thursday, while the al-Shabab extremist group claimed it had targeted Christians.
The gunmen were targeting 33 non-Muslims living in a residential block but a quick response by security forces saved other lives, Mandera County Governor Ali Roba said in a statement. He said the attack occurred near the Bulla area in the early morning.
The Somalia-based Al-Shabab, through its Andulus radio station, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The station quoted an unnamed al-Shabab official saying: “It was a well-planned attack which targeted Christian members in Mandera … We have eliminated the enemy members (who) were targeted.”
Kenya has experienced a wave of attacks from al-Shabab, which is allied to al-Qaeda. Al-Shabab has vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops to Somalia since 2011 to fight the extremists who are waging an insurgency against Somalia’s weak western-backed government.
Both Mandera County and Garissa County, which border Somalia, have been targeted by al-Shabab. The worst attack was in April 2015, when al-Shabab gunmen killed 148, most of them students, at Garissa University.
Suspected al-Shabab gunmen killed at least six people when they shot at two buses traveling in Mandera County in July.
Al-Shabab extremists also hijacked a bus traveling through Mandera County in November 2014 and killed 28 non-Muslims on board. In December 2014, they killed 36 quarry workers in Mandera town.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Black Christians are our brothers, white muslims are our enemies.
Right now, Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Christians have been Murdered and enslaved by Muslims throughout the Middle East. The Muslims would be doing the same to Jews if we were still there. Israel is the only country standing up against ISIS and the Islamic Culture War that is spreading throughout the Middle East and Europe and now threatening America. So, Help Strengthen Israel with the Israel Longhorn Project. (at) longhornproject.org
To all those people living in the Land of Oz .
We are in a World wide Islamic Cultural War or 1400-year-old Jihad.
We each see a different parts of it in the world and if you put all the violent parts together it adds up to only one cause: a 1400 year old Islamic Cultural War. It is the same as that joke of four blind men touching the elephant.
The names of the Arabs and Muslim Terrorists change but the behavior has been always the same for the last 1400 years.
It is not about land, rights or settlements, water or being politically left or right. If it were it would have been solved long ago. It has not.
It is Cultural War that means Islamic Culture must destroy Western Culture or Western Culture must destroy Islamic Culture.
It is an Islamic Genocidal Cultural War, just like the American/Indian Wars that ended in Genocide. This time we are the Indians.
Muslims have been fighting each other and others for 1400 years or more. There is no reason that it will stop now. If we want peace we must change Islamic Culture.
The book “Culture and Conflict”, explains it clearly. It shows that current cultural conditions in the Arab Middle East will not support internal development, advancement or peace until there is a major cultural change. “It is critical that we understand our enemy. That is step one in every conflict,” RR. Philip Carl Salzman, INSB # 978-1-59102-587-0.
All men are our brothers but we have to watch our for sharia believing Muslims because they want to kill or make slaves out of us