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Image showing street riot from Freepik   On 21st September 2013, the Westgate Mall in Nairobi was attacked by masked gunmen later identified as Al-shabaab militants which is  an Islamist terror organization based in Somalia.   According to the Kenyan Red Cross, during the siege the official death toll rose to 62 overnight. The   Times of Israel online Newspaper  reported that a witness who was in the aisles of Nakumatt supermarket, inside the Westgate mall said, the attackers asked people to name the mother of the prophet and recite a religious verse. If you knew the answers, they would let you go. Another survivor, a 31-year old Jewish businessman who was also hiding in one of the rooms with others, says that one of the women amongst them had received a text message from her husband stating that people were being asked to recite an Arabic prayer called Shahaada. Two months later following the attack, four individuals of Somali nationality were charged by a Keny...

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