<B>Police: 39 people confirmed dead in hostage standoff at Nairobi, Kenya, mall</B> By Michael Martinez. Faith Karimi and Zain Verjee, CNN updated 4:38 PM EDT, Sat September 21, 2013 Police and gunmen faced off Saturday at an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital in an hourslong standoff that left at least 31 people dead, authorities said. Several hours after the assault began, Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the bloodshed at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. "The Mujahideen entered #WestgateMall today at around noon and are still inside the mall," the Islamic extremist group said on its Twitter account. Somali-based militant group al-Shabaab has now claimed responsibility for the atrocity in which men armed with guns and grenades stormed the mall and targeted non-Muslims. Police initially believed the attack was an attempt by about ten armed men to rob a shop. But Elijah Kamau, a witness, told AP that the gunmen had announced that they were targeting non-Muslims as they began their attack at the centre. <B>Some of those who escaped were 'challenged to recite a Muslim prayer and were then let out', according to Allan Sayers, who said he was in the Westgate mall five minutes before the attack.</B> http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/21/world/africa/kenya-mall-gunbattle/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 I bet Obama could have recited the prayer if he was inside.
In Kenya, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law Prohibited Firearms and Ammunition In Kenya, civilians are not allowed to possess automatic and semi-automatic self-loading military assault rifles of 7.62mm or 5.56mm calibre, or of any other calibre from time to time specified by the Minister, or firearms fitted with sound suppressors, or AK-47, G3 and MP5 and other similar firearms as may be specified by the Minister Regulation of Automatic Assault Weapons In Kenya, private possession of fully automatic weapons is prohibited Regulation of Semiautomatic Assault Weapons In Kenya, private possession of semi-automatic assault weapons is prohibited... Golly Gee Wilikers, obviously the armed criminals in Kenya don't and or can't read gun laws any better than our armed criminals do. What's a dumb fuck lawmaker to do?