17/06/2014
Kenya president blames locals for deadly attacks
NAIROBI, Kenya ? The killers in the Kenyan village singled out non-Muslims, shooting them point-blank or slitting their throats, just like the previous night in an adjacent hamlet. A Somali extremist group claimed responsibility but Kenya's president on Tuesday blamed local political networks for the 60 deaths. President Uhuru Kenyatta, in a national address, said evidence indicates that the motive for the killing spree was to evict a community of people in order to grab the land along the coast near the Somali border. He said al-Shabab, a Somali group linked to al-Qaida, was not behind it. But analysts expressed doubt. Matt Bryden, the former head of the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia,...
