Kenyan Westgate Mall Terrorist Attack Trial Verdict Postponed

Three suspects charged with aiding five gunmen in a violent terrorist attack launched on the luxury Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya in 2013 — appeared in court on Wednesday for their ongoing trial whose verdict was initially expected to be announced on Monday but has now been postponed. Seven years ago on September 21, four Islamist extremists hailing from al-Shabab — the rebel group linked to al-Qaida, which vowed retribution on Kenya in 2011 for sending troops to Somalia, stormed the luxury Nairobi mall guns blazing and grenades in hand as they went on a killing spree turned 4-day siege that resulted in the death of around 67 people with numerous others both injured and traumatised before Kenyan security forces eventually took the attackers down in a terrifying standoff. The prosecution had over 140 witnesses that testified in the still unresolved case. 

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