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Terrorist Attacks in Kenya: Are we being duped?

HAVE WE BEEN DUPED?

IS IT A FAR-FETCHED HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE ARE KENYANS STILL TRYING TO FORCE UHURU GOVERNMENT OUT...

AND AL SHABAAB IS JUST A SCAPEGOAT OR JUST A GULLIBLE PARTNER IN THE PLAN? ... WITH A PROMISE OF A MUSLIM STATE IN PART OF OR THE WHOLE OF KENYA?

AND THE UK GOVERNMENT IS IN SUPPORT, NAIVELY OR OTHERWISE?

TERRORIST ATTACKS BY KENYANS ON KENYANS ARE NOT MAKING SENSE ANY OTHER WAY! MPEKETONI, GARISSA AND ALL THESE KENYANS BEING ARRESTED RIGHT AND LEFT!

TERRORIST ATTACKS BY KENYANS ON KENYANS BECAUSE KDF IS IN SOMALIA DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, ANY OTHER WAY!

OPPOSITION LEADERS (RAILA, OMAR, ETC) URGING KDF TO PULL OUT OF SOMALIA DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, ANY OTHER WAY!

THE EXACTNESS OF TRAVEL ADVISORIES BY UK; THE 44,000 GUNS INTO EAST AFRICA; TERRORISTS EASILY TRAVELING TO AND FROM UK... DO NOT MAKE SENSE, ANY OTHER WAY!

WHY WOULD UK OR CORD LEADERS WISH TO HAVE AN ISLAMIC STATE IN KENYA... OR IS IT REMOVAL OF UHURUTO BY ANY MEANS NECESSSARY?

Ahmed Nassir speaks: 

I think the attacks in Kenya targeting non Muslims whether at the coast or NEP need a better conceptual understanding.

The popular narrative that these attacks are carried by Al shabab to punish KDF role Somalia is undermined by two important factors.

1. The choice of victims is very telling.

2. Equally important are the actors who carry out this gruesome acts.

If my hypothesis is right that local actors play the "execution" role in both NEP & Coast then the monster is big.... much bigger than Al Shabab. I don't want sound alarmist but the combined events in NEP and coast have a common denominator: in both regions we have two Muslim communities that have 2 separate and known historic grievances against the GOK.

So the Al shabab narrative of punishment is not very satisfactory. Instead are we witnessing the nascent stage or low levels manifestation of a secessionist movement in both regions trying to crystalise both ideologically and militarily?

So probably policy makers need to look at the events of the last 3 yrs through a different prism.The image may be startling.

Geoffrey Ogembo Says:

IS CORD WITH US OR AGAINST US AGAINST IN FIGHT FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM?
This is the latest in a series of terrorist attacks that in Kenya that started with an attack in 1975 and have over the years included the bombing of the StarlightNightclub and a bus station in Nairobi; and an attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi, which before the Garissa attack was viewed as the most atrocious.

In fact since 1975 Kenya has suffered over 250 terrorist attacks, with several thousand people killed, or wounded.

The terrorist attack in Garissa, like the one in Westgate in 2013; or the recent one in France; or the ones in London, Canada, Australia, or China … or like the madness we have witnessed in Syria; or the heinous murders in Nigeria; and the 911 attacks in America; are all driven by one intention only; to shock, cause fear and anxiety, and develop frustration and despair in the respective government’s capacity to protect their own people.

The people behind each attack leverage the internal realities of the respective countries, to pursue an agenda that knows no borders.

But Kenya opposition leaders Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula believe they have the handle for it; at least the Kenyan ones.

SPECIAL CASE

They want us, as Kenyans, to believe that the attacks in Kenya are a special case.

According to these three opposition leaders, who believe that one day Kenyans will give them the ultimate authority to be in charge of our state; the reason the attacks on Kenyan soil happen, is because Kenya Defense Forces are in Somalia.

The little fact that these attacks started before Kenyan troops went to Somalia notwithstanding.

My immediate reaction to this assertion; which the opposition leaders have kept repeating every time there is a loss of innocent Kenyan lives at the hands of these violent extremists; is to wonder which country Nigeria has deployed troops in, to ‘justify’ the loss of over 20,000 of its own citizens to an Al-Shabaab look-alike called Boko Haram.

Maybe the CORD principles should also tell us which country’s interests ISIS represents in their slaughter of innocents in Syria.

Messrs Odinga, Musyoka and Wetangula also need to tell us; which country does Al Qaeda represent?

So when Munyori Buku, one of the infamous team of over-zealous communication ‘strategists’ under the presidency argues that ‘Raila Odinga and Moses Wetangula have become spokesmen of terrorists because they are affirming a position that the terrorists who keep attacking Kenya have harped time’ … I unfortunately cannot help but agree with him, as much as that is not a position I like finding myself in.

The only thing I can add to Munyori’s statement is that the three CORD leaders have crossed the line.

Messrs Odinga, Musyoka and Wetangula are basically arguing that Al Shabaab have a legitimate reason to kill, maim and destroy Kenyans at will, because what they are actually doing is to fight against Kenya’s ‘invasion’ of Somalia.

The three opposition leaders are telling the Kenyans who have lost loved ones that they have suffered this loss because Kenya ‘occupies’ Somalia, a position not even the Somalia government itself has ever expressed.

What are they telling us; that Al Shabaab is a special force of Somalia? What cheek!

So, when Kenya was attacked before we went to Somalia, what were those attacks about?

It was George W Bush who, after the 911 attack, indicated that when faced with the madness of terrorism, there cannot be a middle ground.

You are either with us, or against us. It is quite clear which side Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka and Moses Wetangula are on.

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Back to the President’s speech on the Garissa attack, when he said that we need to be honest and admit that the radicalization that breeds terrorism does not happen in the bush, he put words to the thoughts of millions of Kenyan Christians around the country.

When Wajir North MP Ibrahim Saney recently admitted that the Somali community must take a share of the blame of these attacks because they have allowed terrorists to live and travel within their midst without informing the authorities, or when lawyer Ahmednassir Abdullahi linked the attacks to internal politics within the Somali community, he confirmed the authenticity of these words.

We must all ask hard questions even as we admit that some mad outsiders are pursuing the Muslim caliphate agenda in Kenya, and despite our genuinely acknowledgement that Islam is a peaceful religion.

My first question is; where are the socio-political leaders who represent the communities that these terrorists are operating from? Why are they silent… until after an attack happens?@

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