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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 president's officials are saying they are not concerned or changing their plans. >> i don't think there is reason for serious concern. i think the president's entourage has everything under control. i don't think there is any cause for serious concern about the president's safety. i think he will be safe. >> it's obviously -- this is a country...

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, the best way to make the people feel safe is to show competence when you deal with a major crisis. the...

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 kenya's 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 forces get out of nairobi quick enough. >> reporter: they spent hours on the tarmac waiting to go. >> th...

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 by militants. some christian communities in iraq dating back 2000 years have been wiped out by jiha...