The terrorist group Al-Shabab affiliated with Al-Qaeda
completed an attack on a Kenyan University on Thursday. The Garissa university campus attack claimed
the lives of 148 people including 142 students. Five men ran into the campus
with guns and explosive vests. The terrorist targeted Christians and shot them.
Al-Shabab headed straight for the lecture hall where Christians were engaged in
their morning prayer. Kenyan forces cornered the gunman and four died after
their vests exploded. The fifth man was reportedly arrested. More than 500 students escaped to safety
however, which is the only good to come from this situation. Al-Shabab said it
was at war with Kenya after the Kenyan government sent forces to fight Al-Shabab
in Somalia in 2011. The man believed to
be responsible for the killing is a former Kenyan schoolteacher. The reward
offered by the Kenyan government is $53,000 dollars. He is believed to be in
Somalia. The attack came with some warning but the details of the warning are
not known. All that was known was that an attack was possible on an institute
of higher learning. The university only had two guards on campus at the time of
the attack and the guards were quickly eliminated. People question why there
was such little security when the possibility of an attack was known. The
students of the university were concerned about their safety as early as last
year when they presumably asked for more guards. This is the same group responsible for a hotel
attack in Somalia just last week.
Christopher Blake Eakes
April 3, 2015
7:22 PM
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