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As if the senseless massacre of innocents in Nairobi’s Westgate mall was not horrific enough, reports are surfacing that the Islamic terrorists who seized the mall last weekend tortured, beheaded, raped, and mutilated their victims before killing them. A police doctor who entered the mall after the attack said these reports “are not allegations. Those are f***ing truths.”

From here. More here.
“They removed balls, eyes, ears, nose,” he said. ”They get your hand and sharpen it like a pencil then they tell you to write your name with the blood. They drive knives inside a child’s body. Actually, if you look at all the bodies, unless those ones that were escaping, fingers are cut by pliers, the noses are ripped by pliers.”

Several reports have verified that such atrocities occurred.

The nightmare of the terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi began shortly after noon on Saturday, September 21, when the terrorists began indiscriminately shooting and throwing grenades. The siege ended after four days, with a death toll of 72 (likely to rise) and scores more wounded and missing.

USA Today reported that “hostages were left hanging and had their eyes gouged, others were dismembered. Others had their throats slashed or were castrated and had fingers amputated.”

The police in Nairobi have asked for patience as they continue to investigate the tragedy.

Bud Charniga's gaping asshole wrote:yeah, it's not just the shabaab. Boko Haram over in Nigeria is doing some truly heinous shit. Same with Ansar Dine in Mali.

I think the real answer though is just "man, Africa." It's not even just the Islamists. The LRA in Uganda; the festering messes in Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leon, etc... there's a real continental talent for finding new and exciting ways to make people hurt.

Andy80 wrote:Not to worry. Al Queda is on the run. Osama bin laden is dead.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

Andy80 wrote:Not to worry. Al Queda is on the run. Osama bin laden is dead.

And we are in WMD negotiations with Syria and Iran in conjunction with our allies in Russia. I keep thinking that it can't get any better, yet it does.

Time and again, one reads about Islamist attacks that seem to defy not only the most basic of humanity’s moral strictures but also political and even guerrilla logic. Consider the hundreds of suicide attacks that have taken place in Iraq in recent years, a great number of them against ordinary Iraqis, often children. Western apologists for this wave of weird violence, which they call “resistance”, claim it is about fighting against the Western forces which were occupying Iraq in the wake of the 2003 invasion. If so, it’s the first “resistance” in history whose prime targets have been civilians rather than security forces, and which has failed to put forward any kind of political programme that its violence is allegedly designed to achieve. Even experts in counterinsurgency have found themselves perplexed by the numerous nameless suicide assaults on massive numbers of civilians in post-war Iraq, and the fact that these violent actors, unlike the vast majority of violent political actors in history, have “developed no alternative government or political wing and displayed no intention of amassing territory to govern”.