The two page statement said: "The Mujahideen (holy warriors) carried out this operation ... (as) a response to the witless remarks of US president, Donald Trump, and his declaration of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of Israel."Kenyan security forces killed the terrorists who stormed the hotel compound, taking at least 14 lives and forcing hundreds of others to make terrifying escapes, the government said on Wednesday.
More than 700 civilians were evacuated from the dusitD2 complex after a 20-hour, overnight siege that echoed a 2013 assault that killed 67 people in Nairobi's Westgate shopping center in the same neighborhood.