2 Women Killed In U.S. Embassy Carjacking
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Gunmen carjacked a U.S. Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Saturday afternoon and killed two female relatives of an embassy employee, officials said. Police later killed two people involved in the carjacking.
The victims were the wife and mother-in-law of a U.S. Embassy employee, embassy spokesman Robert Kerr said, without providing further details.
"This a horrible event," he said. "These were people who loved Kenya."
The gunmen "ordered the two women out but they hesitated," said Isaiah Osugo, a criminal investigations officer in Nairobi. "Then they were shot."
Kenyan police later killed two people involved in the carjackings, police spokesman Gideon Kibunja said. He could not immediately provide more details.
Officials withheld the women's names.
Francis Munyambu, Nairobi's deputy provisional police officer, said the carjackers escaped with the embassy vehicle and were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles.
Earlier in the day, the men had carjacked Michael Madine along the same road, according to police and Madine. Madine spoke to The Associated Press at the scene after being interviewed by police.
"Four men with AK-47s carjacked me," he said in Swahili. He said one of the carjackers stayed in the car with him while the others attacked the embassy vehicle.
"I heard one of the women screaming and then I heard three gunshots," Madine said. The carjackers then fled, he said.
The shooting happened just off a highway in Kinoo, about 12 miles outside Nairobi. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw two pools of blood on the roadside.
Shortly after Munyambu's news conference, two men who identified themselves only as officials from the U.S. Embassy ordered reporters to leave the scene and took journalists' pictures, threatening to ban them from the embassy.
Carjackings are common in and around Nairobi, but Saturday's attack was unusually brazen because it took place during the day. In September, the chief U.S. military attache was shot and seriously wounded in a carjacking in Nairobi. Russia's ambassador was stabbed in a robbery on Aug. 20. A month earlier, a Danish diplomat was attacked and robbed.
Kenya's government spokesman, Alfred Mutua, said officials believe Saturday's violence was "a random attack." He did not provide further details.
© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The victims were the wife and mother-in-law of a U.S. Embassy employee, embassy spokesman Robert Kerr said, without providing further details.
"This a horrible event," he said. "These were people who loved Kenya."
The gunmen "ordered the two women out but they hesitated," said Isaiah Osugo, a criminal investigations officer in Nairobi. "Then they were shot."
Kenyan police later killed two people involved in the carjackings, police spokesman Gideon Kibunja said. He could not immediately provide more details.
Officials withheld the women's names.
Francis Munyambu, Nairobi's deputy provisional police officer, said the carjackers escaped with the embassy vehicle and were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles.
Earlier in the day, the men had carjacked Michael Madine along the same road, according to police and Madine. Madine spoke to The Associated Press at the scene after being interviewed by police.
"Four men with AK-47s carjacked me," he said in Swahili. He said one of the carjackers stayed in the car with him while the others attacked the embassy vehicle.
"I heard one of the women screaming and then I heard three gunshots," Madine said. The carjackers then fled, he said.
The shooting happened just off a highway in Kinoo, about 12 miles outside Nairobi. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw two pools of blood on the roadside.
Shortly after Munyambu's news conference, two men who identified themselves only as officials from the U.S. Embassy ordered reporters to leave the scene and took journalists' pictures, threatening to ban them from the embassy.
Carjackings are common in and around Nairobi, but Saturday's attack was unusually brazen because it took place during the day. In September, the chief U.S. military attache was shot and seriously wounded in a carjacking in Nairobi. Russia's ambassador was stabbed in a robbery on Aug. 20. A month earlier, a Danish diplomat was attacked and robbed.
Kenya's government spokesman, Alfred Mutua, said officials believe Saturday's violence was "a random attack." He did not provide further details.
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Posted by Linfinster at 12:32 AM : Jan 28, 2007"
That is exactly correct!
We have no interest in desiring death for anyone or gloating over anyone's death.
We do have an issue with invaders who destroy indigenous cultures and impose foreign religious rubbish on 'conquered' people. We have no reason to mourn the death of such invaders, especially when nature acts to reduce their burden on indigenous people.
Be serious, so-called Kenyan, unfortunate as any human death is, what we had here were your 'criminals' murdering christian criminal missionaries!
Just remember this, the forces of evil can be as 'sweet' as a christian missionary APPEAR to be, or as sour as the invaders and colonizers the moronic missionaries follow behind to destroy indigenous cultures and implant their destructive andforeign religious rubbish!
Wake the hell up, Kenyan, and recognize that Kenya and the crime-ridden Nairobi ARE NOT African creations.
Those failed entities of divisiveness are impositions of "divide and rule" colonialists, represented by the likes of those dead missionaries.
While its terrible that the indigenous people are freed of two christian devils via violence; it is better to realize that no angels died in that car jacking. None!
"The other Africans who die because they are "a bulls eye" are making their own choices. Just like the killers."
Interesting choice of words - but tell me this, is there really a difference between Americans who make their own choices and Africans who make their own choices? Or anyone else for that matter?
As far as I'm concerned, just like those Africans you mentioned, these two women made their own choices as well.
Obviously, they were the wrong choices.
http://www.a-human-right.com
Honor him for the point of his message...to educate us about two good people. The other Africans who die because they are "a bulls eye" are making their own choices. Just like the killers.