Kenyan Troops

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Kenyan Troops

Kenyan invasion of southern Somalia continues with negative results starting to show for the Kenyan tourist industry as gunmen attacked on Thursday a vehicle in Kenya near the border with Somalia, causing four people to die. The attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade, killing four people, one of which was a teacher and another was a governmental official. Kenya has blamed Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab, which it has been hunting down in the southern territory of Somalia for a few months.

Al-Shabaab denies that it has staged abductions into the Kenyan territory, the reason that triggered the Kenyan invasion, and promised to retaliate for the aggression against Somalia.

Kenyan police said in their opinion the attack was a banditry attack, but the suspicions that the Islamic group has taken revenge continue to grow.

On Wednesday, a man was arrested in Nairobi while carrying two grenades he detonated. In court he admitted he was a member of the al-Shabaab. His gesture killed one man and wounded 29 people.

Last week the French authorities reported that the Frenchwoman that had been abducted by the al-Shabaab from Kenya died of cancer.

Kenya initiated an attack on the al-Shabaab on October 16, after the members of the group kidnapped a few foreign tourists on its territory. The troops advanced toward a port where the Islamists are in control. They hoped that by cutting them off the port, the group will lose its grip on people of Somalia and will be easier to defeat.

Kenya has one of the best forces in Africa, with soldiers trained by the American forces and by the British. Some of the analysts even believe that Kenya’s action is covertly supported by the United States, which is trying to settle the score with this organization known to be affiliated to the al-Qaeda.

Experts consider that the Kenyan attack may be a mistake, because the tourist activities in the Kenyan resorts begin to fade as the hotels and the restaurants must close or remain empty with the tourists fleeing a zone of potential conflict.

They also remind that al-Shabaab may have now the excuse they need in order to launch an all-out attack on Kenya. They remember how al-Shabaab retaliated against Uganda for the role played in the African Union mission in Somalia.

Uganda and Burundi are the countries that sent some 9,000 troops to help the regime in Mogadishu, which has a pro-Western orientation but little power in the country.

Kenya wants to establish a buffer zone it calls Jubaland or Azania, an idea the Somali authorities do not favor.

Al-Shabaab controls large parts of Somalia and played a large role in preventing the UN humanitarian aid agencies to make sure that the food supplies would reach the people who were struck by famine.

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