Al-Shabaab Threatens To Attack Shopping Malls In U.S, Canada & UK In New Video

Somali terror group, Al-Shabaab has released a graphic video calling for 'Westgate-style' attacks on shopping districts such as Oxford Street in London as well as major shopping centres in the United States and Canada. The threat is being taken seriously by security officials across the Atlantic after the group called on Jihadis living in the west to target major shopping centres in their home cities.

During the 76-minute video, which was published on YouTube by Al-Shabaab's media wing, the terrorist, who has a strong English accent, recites a list of potential targets which included London's Oxford Street as well as the Westfield malls in Stratford and White City.

Donning a camouflage jacket with a headscarf covering his face, the fighter threatens action and refers to the group's 2013 siege on Kenya's Westgate Mall, in which 62 people died. The terrorist even supplied the GPS co-ordinates for the Westfield shopping centres in Stratford, East London and White City in West London.

The video, which lasts 76 minutes, is fronted by a terrorist with an English accent. He said:

‘We call upon our Muslim brothers, particularly those in the West, to answer the call of Allah and target disbelievers wherever they are. If just a handful of mujahedeen fighters can bring Kenya to a complete standstill for nearly a week, imagine what a dedicate mujahed in the West could do to American or Jewish owned shopping centres across the world?
‘What if such an attack on the Mall of America in Minnesota or the West Edmonton mall in Canada or in London’s Oxford Street. Or any of the hundred or so of the Jewish owned Westfield shopping centres.
‘Take the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford or White City for example, what would be the implications of such an attack, one can only imagine.
‘All it takes is a man with firm determination, of which our Muslim ummah (community) has plenty of.’

Finishing his slowly delivered and lengthy speech, he said: ‘So hurry up and hasten to Heaven and do not hesitate.

Source: DailyMail UK