Shabaab Says Nairobi Attack Carried Out in Accordance With Zawahiri’s Guidelines

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Shabaab Says Nairobi Attack Carried Out in Accordance With Zawahiri’s Guidelines

By Thomas Joscelyn
January 19, 2019


Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, has released a two–page statement on yesterday’s attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya. The message was accompanied by an English translation.

Shabaab is eager to frame the assault as part of a larger, global struggle, but it also makes its animosity for the Kenyan government known.

The group says that it “carried out this operation – codenamed Operation ‘Jerusalem will never be Judaized’ – in accordance with the guidelines of Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri,” who called on al Qaeda’s global membership to target “western and Zionist interests worldwide and in support of our Muslim families in Palestine.”

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2019/01/19/shabaab_says_nairobi_attack_carried_out_in_accordance_with_zawahiris_guidelines_114117.html