Guest Pearse Redmond of the PorkinsPolicyReview website joined me to reflect on the Westgate shopping centre attack, the US Special Forces raids that was the immediate response to the attack, and how the war on terror is being rewritten once again to help justify a re-colonisation of the African continent. The conversation also covered the strange confluence of security teams in and around the Westgate shopping centre at the time of the attack, the strange story of Samantha Lewthwaite, the context and likely trajectory of Al Shabaab and the prospects for Africa as the war on terror makes the continent its new home. We also talked about why most the alternative media have dropped the ball on this story.
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BBC – US Special Forces raid Libya and Somalia
Porkins Policy Radio episode 5
Samantha Lewthwaite: Wanted Dead or Alive