After Kenya Mall Attack, CIA And FBI Scramble To Thwart The Shabab -- L.A. Times
U.S. intelligence officials are trying to determine who carried out the siege of the Westgate mall in Nairobi and how.
WASHINGTON — The CIA is adding operatives and resources to focus on the Somalia-based militant group the Shabab as the FBI sends scores of agents to help examine evidence taken from the rubble of the shopping mall massacre in Nairobi, U.S. officials say.
The FBI is taking the lead in the investigation, while the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies are mining electronic data and quizzing informants in an effort to determine whether the Al Qaeda-linked group is planning new attacks, including any against U.S. facilities or interests.
The CIA's counter-terrorism center has several analysts and operatives who work full time on the Shabab, but they had detected no sign that the audacious attack in Kenya's capital was being planned. The center will add experts to step up collection and analysis of intelligence on the group's leaders and operations.
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My Comment: Expect drone strikes in the next few months to escalate and expand in Somalia. On a side note .... US intelligence is stating that they had no prior knowledge that a terrorist attack was being planned by these al Shabaab terrorists .... but according to the Independent warnings were issued but no one was listening ....
.... Kenya’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS), widely accused by politicians of failing to pick up chatter about the attack, has insisted it did warn the police and officials inside the President’s office before the Westgate siege, but its warnings went unheeded, The Star reported.
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