Westgate Mall Attack News Today

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.

Public particularly given the precarious security environment that is in kenya. we are familiar with the westgate mall attack which the mall just recently reopened in the past week. the attack at the university. cause for concern. >> at the same time the presidents officials are saying they are not concerned or changing their plans. >> i dont think there is reason for serious concern. i think the presidents entourage has everything under control. i dont think there is any cause for serious conce...

Of the fact that people are realizing sheltering in place and kenya may not be a good idea. >> tom fuentes, when you look at how you handle this situation from the government level and the kenyan government and how they get a hold of this increasing risk from al shabaab, what is the answer to make people feel safe at their universities at the shopping malls, et cetera sort of unless you make everyone go through metal detectors and you make these universities into compounds? >> i think, poppy, th...

Bearer. >> reporter: here they are sad but also angry as new questions are asked about the operation to save the students. a police source tells cnn that kenyas anti-terror squad got the alarm early but was stuck on the tarmac in nairobi for hours waiting for transport. the source said that even politicians got to the scene before the squad. the government is defending their response, stressing that the team was able to save a lot of students. >> the question at the moment has been did our force...

School with an extensive terror network. in the aftermath of the bloodbath, security was very tight as christians in the town surged to easter sunday services. garissa is known as a religious fault line where christians worship on one side and muslims worship on the other. the pope used his easter address to pray for the kenyan massacre victims and all oppressed people around the world. effort mass was especially poignant in baghdad, 50 people died there in 2010 when the church came under attack...

Strikes, how do you fight that from the inception? bob, when you look at kenya, right, the horrific attack this week 147 people killed even after u.s. drone strikes took out the plotters from al shabaab that planned the westgate mall attack in cainkenya, that didnt do anything to spurn this attack. is there a better way? >> you know there isnt a better way. i suppose you can put troops on the ground but were not doing that in kenya and somalia. these organizations you can decapitate but theres a...

Order as well as step up the antiterrorism campaign. at the end of the day, if you have an open sore like somalia, where you got the shabab armed and trained and getting combat experience you can never entirely protect yourself from attacks like these. >> whats your assessment of this? they have looked at al shabab as being weakened, try bing to compete with the likes of isis and aqap, for example, the attack 147 killed whats your assessment of the strength of the terrorist organization? >> the ...

In somalia. there are special forces involved as well as covert drone strikes that have taken up several leaders of al shabab. they are not nearly strong a force as it was several years ago when it held big parts of somalia as a quasi government but they are cornered and dangerous, and they have in recent months threatened u.s. targets. theres going to be a lot of cooperation in the coming months. >> they did recently threaten malls across the u.s. incoming the mall of america. what are the peop...

Believed to be connected to the attack and shooters separated muslims from nonmuslims and proceeded to kill as many as the nonmuslims as they could. kenyas president called them an existential threat and vowed to continue to fight terrorism today on national television saying quote, our forefathers bled and died for the nation, and well do everything to defend our way of life. today, a survival of that horrific attack on campus told cnn how she hid when the attack started and stayed there for tw...

Drive them through town with the crowds assembling behind that truck and showing them off as if it was to the population and in effect to prove they killed these gunmen. because in previous attacks, there have been allegations that the military let people slip by and as you say, al shabab said theyll bathe the cities of kenya with blood. after the attack they want to do more, and kenyas president saying theyll spare nothing to go after them in kenya and next door in somalia. poppy? >> what resou...