Kenya launches airstrikes against militants in Somalia

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[h=4]Kenya launches airstrikes against militants in Somalia[/h]Kenyan jets blasted two Islamic militant camps across the border in Somalia on Monday in retaliation for a terror attack in Kenya last week that killed 148 people, Kenyan military officials said.

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The Kenyan government claims Abdirahim Abdullahi, the son of a local official, orchestrated the terrorist attack that killed 147 people Thursday.
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Medical staff console a woman after she viewed the body of a relative killed in Thursday's attack at Garissa university in northeastern Kenya, at the Chiromo funeral home in Nairobi, Kenya,(Photo: Khalil Senosi, AP)


Kenyan jets blasted two Islamic militant camps across the border in Somalia on Monday in retaliation for a terror attack last week that killed 148 people, Kenyan military officials said.
No casualty reports related to the airstrikes were immediately released. The Somalia-based al-Shabab militant group has taken responsibility for the attack Thursday at Garissa University College.
"We bombed two Shabab camps in the Gedo region," Kenyan army spokesman David Obonyo told AFP. "The two targets were hit and taken out. The two camps are destroyed."
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had threatened to retaliate "in the severest way possible" against the al-Qaeda-linked militants for Thursday's attack.
Also Monday, Garissa Township MP and National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale called for closure of Somali refugee camps in Kenya, saying they were being used to plan attacks against Kenya.
More than 300,000 Somalis live in the camps, which Duale told the Daily Nation have become centers for assembling and training of terror networks. Duale said the United Nations refugee agency can relocate the camps across the border.
Al-Shabab said the attack on the school, near the Somali border, was a reprisal for Kenyan efforts to put down the Islamic insurgency in Somalia. Al-Shabab leaders on Saturday warned of a "long, gruesome war" unless Kenya withdrew its troops from Somalia.
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Kenya has repeatedly struck the militant base in southern Somalia since 2011. Kenya also has joined the African Union force fighting the insurgency.
"The bombings are part of the continued process and engagement against al-Shabab, which will go on," army spokesman Obonyo added.
The government is offering a $220,00 reward for the capture of Mohamed Mohamud, also known as Gamadhere, accused of masterminding the Garissa attack. Gamadhere, a Somalian, is a former teacher at an Islamic religious school — called madrassas — in Northern Kenya.
On Sunday, the Interior Ministry identified one of the four Garissa gunmen as Abdirahim Abdullahi, 24, the well-educated son of a Kenyan government official.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka told the Daily Nation that Abdullahi was "described by a person who knows him well as a brilliant upcoming lawyer."
The involvement of a well-connected Kenyan was another ominous sign of the growing strength of al-Shabab in Kenya, a Christian-dominated nation of 45 million people. The vast majority of war-torn Somalia's 10 million people are Muslim.
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