22/02/2015
'Al-Shabab video' calls on Muslims to attack London shopping attractions including Oxford Street and Westfield ...
A video claiming to be by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked rebels has urged Muslims to attack London shopping sites including Oxford Street and Westfield Stratford City. In the footage, released last night, Somalia's extremist group al-Shabab says the 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, was in retaliation for Kenyan military involvement in Somalia. The video shows footage from major news organisations of the assault, in which 67 people died over a number of days in September that year. A masked narrator in the 76-minute clip warns of more attacks in Kenya and calls on Muslims to attack shopping centres, specifically mentioning Oxford Street and the Westfield centre. Timeline: The...
