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On 21 September 2013, unidentified gunmen attacked the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The attack resulted in at least 67 deaths, and more than 175 people were reportedly wounded in the mass shooting. The extremist Islamic group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident, which it characterised as retribution for the Kenyan military's deployment in the group's home country of Somalia. Many media outlets also suspected the insurgent group's involvement in the attack based on earlier reprisal warnings it had issued in the wake of Operation Linda Nchi from 2011 to 2012. Kenyan authorities arrested dozens of people in the aftermath of the attack, but had not announced any suspects directly related to the siege. On 4 November 2013, a Kenyan court charged four Somali nationals with harbouring the gunmen in their homes, with each pleading not guilty. On September 20, 2015, Foreign Policy magazine reported the Westgate attack on September 21 was a several-hours attack, with the last victim killed before special Kenyan security forces entered the mall. Similar reports include from the NYPD, HBO, and United States Army.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CASE STUDYTerrorist Attack on Westgate Shopping Mall, Nairobi, Kenya, September 21-24, 2013 )〕 The mall was officially declared secured on 24 September. ==Background== The incident followed threats from al-Shabaab in late 2011 of attacks in Kenya in retaliation for Linda Nchi, a coordinated military operation in southern Somalia that was launched against the group by the Somali military and Kenyan military.〔 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kenyahighcomtz.org/?action=event-read-more.html&id=1 )〕 One week before the incident and a month after United Nations warnings of possible attacks, Kenyan police claimed to have disrupted a major attack in its final stages of planning after arresting two people with grenades, AK-47 assault rifles, and suicide vests packed with ball bearings. The two suspects were from a Nairobi neighbourhood where Somali immigrants live. A manhunt was also launched for eight more suspects. ''The Sunday Telegraph'' claimed that it had seen United Nations documents that warned that in the previous month that the threat of an "attempted large-scale attack" in Kenya was "elevated."〔 After the incident, Nairobi senator Mike Sonko claimed that he had warned the security services of a possible attack three months previously. The country was celebrating the International Day of Peace when the incident took place. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westgate shopping mall attack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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