A Kenyan man arrested in connection with two grenade explosions in the country's capital claimed in court on Wednesday that he was a member of al-Shabaab, Somalia's Islamist insurgent group. By Mike Pflanz, Nairob Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Elgiva Oliacha, 28, pleaded guilty to nine charges, including causing grievous bodily harm to two people in the second attack, on a bus stop in central Nairobi late on Monday. Anti-terror police said that he was likely to face further charges relating to another explosion earlier the same day at an after-hours pub in the city. Despite telling the court hearing that he was an al-Shabaab member, security sources said that they suspected that he acted alone and that the twin grenade attacks were not ordered by the Islamists' leadership in Somalia. "It's just not their style, they'd go for something much bigger," said one Western diplomat in Nairobi. The explosions had, however, deeply concerned commuters travelling in and out of Nairobi's centre, and led to even tighter security across the city. "Usually that place is so loud, people shouting and noisy everywhere," said Evelyn Waimiru, an insurance administrator. "These last two days, guys have been so quiet, not really looking at each other. The police are there in force, but they cannot be everywhere. We are worried, but we are alert." The US said last week that it had "credible" information of an "imminent" terror attack on Nairobi, especially on areas frequented by foreigners including shopping centres and nightclubs. Kenya's authorities have been stressing that they have significantly increased the numbers of armed and uniformed police in the city. Officers found a cache of weapons, including 13 grenades, an AK47 and four pistols, at an address in a low-income estate on the city centre's edge late on Tuesday. Security checks at some malls caused long traffic jams on Wednesday, and television news reports have featured hotels which have introduced state-of-the-art security measures to foil potential attacks. Kenya sent two battalions of its armed forces into Somalia last week with a stated mission to root out al-Shabaab from its bases close to the countries' shared border. Nairobi blames the Islamists for a series of abductions of Westerners from northern Kenya. Al-Shabaab's leaders deny this, and have vowed revenge for the invasion, including fresh terror strikes on Nairobi. Source: Telegraph

Abtigiis....Somalis are plenty capable. I don't for even minute buy that they are not able to solve their own problems, what's missing is accountability. To equate AS with invaders is pure silliness and to expect another man to do your job is even sillier. Though AS is part of the Somalia's problems now, they are not the cause and unlike what many would say they are not Somalia's biggest problem. AS exists because those that supposedly despise it can not or would not agree to sit down together to find a common solution.It's ironic majority in this site oppose AS yet no one eill forego their narrow interests to defeat a common enemy and put Somalia first, hence why many are reduced to many mini-lands hoping foriegners will solve their problems at the expense of other Somalis. Anyone serious about defeating AS knows the answer is not in foriegn intervention.

As another neighbor invaded our beloved country, Somalis have again choose to define themselves along narrow interests which if history is any indication will come to nothing. It has been two decades since the first foriegn intervention when the whole world led by the Yanks came to Somalia in response to famine-stricken people of Somalia. If there was ever any benevolent foriegn intervention in Somalia, Operation Restore Hope was the closest thing. The Bush Administration was high on its victory over Saddam and declared itself the sole remaining power of the world. Somalia was to be test tube for America's new world order. Had the Somali rebel leaders exercised some common sense, the country and the state could have been saved and the world's goodwill could have been put to good use by the Somalis but as faith would have it, Somali leaders who were and still are not accountable to anyone including own individual their tribes faltered the opportunity the world has given. It all came to ahead with the killing of the Pakistani peacekeepers and the botched American operation resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Somalia and 19 US Servicemen. Without going any farther into the history, it is safe to say it was this day the world decided to wash its hands off Somalia. A policy of containment was instituted and that policy holds to this day. Any subsequent foriegn intervention was and is simply response to the policy of the containment. It is not to aid Somalis in re-establishing their State or eliminate any special menace facing the Somali population.With no real government, credible leaders and empowered civil society, the Somali conflict became complex and the will of foriegn stakeholders became the final word. The Ethiopian invasion, AMISOM and Kenyan invasion represents complex mix of foriegn stakeholders with competing interests but with one goal, and that's Somalia's problems should stay in Somalia.There is no evidence to suggest any of the interventions was conceived to benefit Somalia and Somalis. With no real Somali leadership that can stand toe to toe with foriegn stakeholders and no sovereignty over our own country, what arguments can Somalis make to justify anymore foriegn intervention?

^LooooooooooooooL...how's it buffer zone?

^Calm down buddy...don't excited.

Khayr;753745 wrote: Che, do you know what they call black people in Boston? Hint: Its the day of the week everybody dislikes. I'm not sure where you are going with this. p.s. I love Mondays. And you must be working with some militant atheist. You are on the draw and ready for battle even there's none.

Is it me or does Somalia and Knight sound like the same person, different only in font color.

"The symbolism behind Hawa being from Adam's Rib is an antithesis to the thinking of our times. For women to have been created 2nd and from a Man's body part - that is blasphemous to the modern Apple generation psycho fanatics." It seems to bother you much as well....loool

Oba and Zack, you are spin masters.

Now, all that's left is to have hot blond or maybe brunette promoting a male breast cancer checkup...loool

^I can get the author's contact and you can email him and make purchase that way. You are welcomed Femme

^NONE

^No one has monopoly on violence and barbarism. Duke-Of course, Somalis will be hurt but AS has become boogeyman for Kenya. There's no proof they were behind any of attacks.

looool..why 15th century?

"Bush and Cheny approved these sorts of "enhanced interrogat*ion" methods. Did they think only THEY'D get to use them?" looooooool@comment

Carafaat;753341 wrote: Yeey and Xabashi's were responsible for more death, destruction and refugee's then all those years of Amisom presence. Just ask all those refugee's. I did ask then and it's all the same. You are trying to make political point but crimes are crimes and destructive presence is not less any painful.

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Kenya: Second explosion in Nairobi A blast has gone off at a bus stop in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, killing at least one person, police say. An earlier grenade attack on a bar in the city wounded 12 people. The attacks happened two days after the US embassy in Kenya warned that an attack by Islamist militants from neighbouring Somalia was imminent. But Kenyan Police Commissioner Matthew Iteere said there was no evidence linking the bar attack to the militants from the al-Shabab group. The Kenyan government sent troops to Somalia more than a week ago to pursue the militants after accusing them of being behind a spate of abductions on its territory. Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda and controls much of southern and central Somalia, denies involvement in the kidnappings but has warned of reprisals if Kenyan troops do not withdraw from Somalia. Kenya's Red Cross said on its Twitter feed that eight casualties had been rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15435663

^I mean this invasion will be advantageous to Ethiopia economically. On progress of the Kenyan advance, no real fighting has taken place yet, AS will evecuate towns and villages and will give Kenyans false of sense security. They have learned not to fight mechanized army. Supposedly, the weather is also hampering things/

One thing Ethiopia couldn't do is match Kenya's economic supremacy. This misadventure might change that.

Zenawi must be laughing at the Kenyans.

Bad news for all-the illusion of safety will disappear.

By TOM ODULA The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Witnesses say a second explosion has gone off in downtown Nairobi, and an Associated Press reporter at the scene says he can see at least one dead body. The blast happened Monday evening near a bus stop where working class Kenyans gather to find transportation home. The Kenyan Red Cross reported on its Twitter feed that one person was killed and eight others were taken to the hospital. A grenade blast went off early Monday in a working-class bar. A dozen people were wounded, three seriously. http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/2nd-explosion-goes-off-1208565.html

A change of heart Naxar....AS is right to Kenya since Kenya step over the border. NGONGE- listen carefully, this is not about Somaliland.