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    A new video from Al Shabaab purportedly shows the terror group calling for an attack on Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minn.

    According to Fox 9, the mall is one of three similar targets the terror group specifically names, including West Edmonton Mall in Canada and the Oxford Street shopping area in London.

    The video purportedly shows 6 minutes of graphic images and the terrorists celebrating the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed more than 60 people.

    The narrator, his face wrapped in a black-and-white kaffiyeh-type scarf and wearing a camouflage jacket, spoke with a British accent and appeared to be of Somali origin. He accused Kenyan troops in Somalia of committing abuses against Somali Muslims.

    He ended the video by calling on Muslim men to attack other shopping malls in Western countries.

    An image of the Mall of America is shown in the video, alongside its GPS coordinates. The mall says it is ramping up its security in response.

    "We will continue to monitor events with the help of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies," Mall of America said in a statement. "As always, we take any potential threat seriously and respond appropriately. Mall of America has implemented extra security precautions, some may be noticeable to guests, and others won't be. We will continue to follow the situation, along with law enforcement, and will remain vigilant as we always do in similar situations."

    Jim Kallstrom, the former assistant director of the FBI’s New York office, said the FBI has a “huge job in front of them.

    “You look at the Mall of America, you look at all the malls then you start to backtrack and say you know it would be nice if we knew what comes and goes into the country,” Kallstrom told Fox News on Sunday. “We don’t have a clue.”

    The Department of Homeland Security and FBI issued a joint statement Sunday saying that both agencies were aware of the video.

    "In recent months, the FBI and DHS have worked closely with our state and local public safety counterparts and members of the private sector, to include mall owners and operators, to prevent and mitigate these types of threats," the statement read.

    Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on NBC's Meet The Press that “there needs to be an awareness.

    "We're in a new phase now, and I'm afraid that this most recent video release reflects that," Joshnson said during an appearance on ABC's This Week.

    Al Shabaab, Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, claimed responsibility for a Friday attack on a hotel in Somalia's capital that killed 25 people and wounded 40, the country's government said Saturday.

    One Islamic extremist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the gate of the Central Hotel, and another went in and blew himself up, a statement from Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke's office said.

    Government officials were meeting at the Central Hotel at the time, and the statement said Mogadishu's deputy mayor and two legislators were among the dead. It was unclear whether the government's report of 25 dead included the two bombers.

    Despite the loss of key strongholds in Somalia, Al Shabaab, which is linked to Al Qaeda, continues to stage attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere.

    The group, designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department in 2008, has close ties to Al Qaeda through its senior leaders. It has attracted several radical volunteers from Minneapolis and Americans began traveling to Somalia in 2007 to join the group.

    Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, condemned the Friday attack and said it would not derail efforts by his government to restore peace to Somalia, which is recovering from decades of war.

    This is the second attack on a hotel in Mogadishu in less than a month. On Jan. 22, three Somali nationals were killed when a suicide car bomber blew himself up at the gate of a hotel housing the advance party of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who visited the country days later.

    Al Shabaab controlled much of Mogadishu during the years 2007 to 2011, but was pushed out of Somalia's capital and other major cities by African Union forces.

    In Kenya, the government dismissed the Al Shabaab video.

    "They're using propaganda to legitimize what cannot be legitimized. When you lead a group to go and attack a shopping mall and kill innocent shoppers that cannot be legitimized, those were not soldiers," Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said.

    "Muslims also died in the Westgate attack. It's in our interest to ensure Somalia is stabilized because the instability affects us. The video is cheap propaganda trying to re-write history and to get more support from those support them."

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.
    "Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey

  • #2
    Same thing I remember hearing several years ago when there was talk about Al Queda sleeper cells and American targets of interest.

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    • #3
      Ya, but this time "they" are openly broadcasting it. Only takes one nut job that drinks the kool-aid...
      "Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey

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      • #4
        I think of this shit every time my wife wants to go to a mall.
        I don't like Republicans, but I really FUCKING hate Democrats.


        Sex with an Asian woman is great, but 30 minutes later you're horny again.

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        • #5
          I don't even remember the last time we went to the mall, maybe 10 years.

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          • #6
            Breaking news.... Radical islamic group <insert random name here> wishes death to the west.....



            ...because before today they were strictly following the Geneva Convention's ROE.

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            • #7
              is there a chance we could talk them into hitting wal-marts instead???

              god bless.
              It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men -Frederick Douglass

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ELVIS View Post
                is there a chance we could talk them into hitting wal-marts instead???

                god bless.
                maybe if you send them an email... jihad@alalalalalaalalahkbar.com
                .

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                • #9
                  I think this threat authorizes the US citizens to form defensive militias armed with fully automatic weapons. We must be able to protect our homelands from this hostility by terrorists. They will not obey the laws of this great country. Now is the time! Now we must protect the Renes, the Brodies, the Quints, the Jays, and the Bobs of the mall from these evil shaitans. Stand up America! Let our voices be heard we will not let these terrorists bring harm to ours centers of commerce, our malls, well except for Red Bird, Irving and La Gran Plaza

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                  • #10
                    They better not try that at Brown East Mall they will be out gunned.
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                    • #11
                      I'm openly targeting Natalie Dormer's butthole, in the name of me.
                      ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by YALE View Post
                        I'm openly targeting Natalie Dormer's butthole, in the name of me.
                        I'll join your cause. Anal akkbar!!!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by YALE View Post
                          I'm openly targeting Natalie Dormer's butthole, in the name of me.
                          Originally posted by Denny View Post
                          I'll join your cause. Anal akkbar!!!
                          "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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                          • #14
                            You probably didn't read about it here in the western media because it wouldn't increase website clicks but the best these idiots could do in Nigeria is get four scared kids with AKs to go into the mall and start shooting. They only killed 60 people because no one was armed and the police stood around outside with their thumbs in their asses (dressed like commandos of course) wondering what to do.
                            Originally posted by racrguy
                            What's your beef with NPR, because their listeners are typically more informed than others?
                            Originally posted by racrguy
                            Voting is a constitutional right, overthrowing the government isn't.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Broncojohnny View Post
                              the police stood around outside with their thumbs in their asses (dressed like commandos of course) wondering what to do.
                              That is just Africa for you. The level of cowardliness in black Africans has to be seen first hand to be believed. If you want to see an African who will fight against all odds and die like a fucking Viking if it comes down to it you have to look for a White South African Boer.
                              Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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