A boatload of Somali gunmen attacked an exclusive beachside resort in Kenya on Sunday, killing a British tourist and kidnapping his wife before racing back into Somalia, Western diplomats said.American officials were initially concerned that that attack might have been connected to the Sept. 11 anniversary and that the gunmen were Islamist militants looking for Americans.
But by Sunday evening Western diplomats were leaning away from that theory, though they said they were still uncertain about the motive of the attack.
The beachside resort, Kiwayu Safari Village, is just south of the Somali border and one of the priciest destinations in Kenya, where guests stay in $1300-a-night bungalows at the water’s edge and are summoned to sumptuous feasts at night by the trumpet of a conch shell. Prince William and Mick Jagger are said to have vacationed here.
According to Western diplomats, the gunmen attacked the resort under the cover of darkness, zooming up to the beach in a small skiff shortly after midnight on Sunday.
It is not clear how the British tourist was killed but officials said the gunmen sped away with the dead man’s wife, heading toward Ras Kamboni, Somalia, a well-known hide-out for Islamist militants.
NO ISLAMISM HERE. SURE. WHY WOULD ANYONE SUSPECT THAT, ANYHOW? ONLY IRRATIONAL MUSLIM-HATING RACISTS.
AND MOHAMED AND BINLADEN AND ZAWAHIRI AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF IRAN... THEY WERE OR ARE ALL MISUNDERSTANDERS OF ISLAM.
YEAH, SURE.
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