Kenya bombs Al Shabab targets amid outcry over response to Garissa attack

The Kenyan government says it has struck back against Al Shabab, bombing two of the Islamist group's Somali camps in retaliation for its deadly attack Thursday on a university in the northeastern town of Garissa. But some experts say the danger to Kenya is less the terrorist group itself than the holes in the country's security thanks to rampant corruption.

A Kenyan spokesman said early Monday that the Air Force had bomb two sites within Somalia   "because according to information we have, those [Al Shabab] fellows are coming from there to attack Kenya," the Guardian reports. The damage done to the two camps, both in the Gedo region bordering Kenya, could not be ascertained because of cloud cover over the sites, the spokesman said.

Al Shabab claimed responsibility last week for the attack on Garissa College University, in which four gunmen killed at least 148 students. Kenyan security forces eventually killed the gunmen. Al Shabab said that the attack was in retaliation for Kenya's ongoing military activity in Somalia, where its Army is aiding the internationally-backed Somali government in rooting out the Islamic group.

 

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