Al-Shabaab releases video calling for attacks on malls in Canada, UK, U.S.

[Chubbs]

(CNN)Terror group Al-Shabaab has released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

But "there is no indication of any specific, real threat" against malls in the United States, according to FBI spokesman Rich Quinn.

Another U.S. law enforcement official familiar with the situation also told CNN that there is no actual working threat against any mall in the country and added that no one should avoid going to a mall because of the online threat.

Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked terror group, apparently posted the video Saturday. The group talks about its September 2013 attack on a mall in Kenya. The brazen, four-day siege left more than 60 people dead at an upscale mall in Nairobi.

In its new video, Al-Shabaab calls for similar attacks on malls in the three Western countries. Al-Shabaab identified specific malls, but CNN will not list them unless they respond publicly.

Quinn told CNN that "there is no doubt Al-Shabaab would like to carry out an attack on a U.S. mall, but they are in a pretty weakened state."

The "bigger danger is their ability to inspire homegrown violent extremists inside the U.S. who might see this propaganda and decide to act," Quinn said.

"Do we believe Al-Shabaab is sending operatives to the U.S.? No," he said.

The new threat against malls did not alter the threat level in the United States, Quinn added.

"Al-Shabaab's desire to conduct an attack is there, but their capability and access is probably not," he said. "This is more of a call to arms. Seeing the attention other groups like ISIS and (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) are getting, they are ringing their own bell."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/al-shabaab-calls-for-mall-attacks/index.html

Not sure if this has been posted, but

 

[Ohene]

might have to stay out of eaton center

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Go and bomb dubai and qatari malls please..

 

[jackswstd]

Looks like I'll be avoiding malls for the foreseeable future.

 

[pickles]

I more scared of some random cac with a gun than some terrorist.

 

[Kitsch]

I more scared of some random cac with a gun than some terrorist.

A lone wolf?

 

[Nomadum]

I'm telling you, I hear anyone thanking ANY God over the voice level of a whisper while out in public and I'm going to try and fly they face into the nearest wall off their heads. fukk out of here, now you pussies want me to be stuck in the house scared of some coward with explosives and guns? eat my left nut, make the right one jealous and don't forget to pleasure the tip.

fukk Al-Shabaab, I'll die if some shyt happen... that's the likely outcome, but I'll attempt to fukk one of them bytch ass nikkas up in the process.

 

[thekingsmen]

Fake threats, fake attacks. Got to love the News.

 

[Serious]

Looks like I'll be avoiding malls for the foreseeable future.

Amazon.com been good to a nikka lately.

 

[thekingsmen]

Amazon.com been good to a nikka lately.

Wait...it will be coming soon from the news that ISIS or some group similar is threatening Amazon with e-bombs.

 

[Marl0 Stanfield]

Turn schools and shopping malls into armed fascist camps because the public can't grasp the concept of a "false flag", brehs.

 

[thekingsmen]

Turn schools and shopping malls into armed fascist camps because the public can't grasp the concept of a "false flag", brehs.

The typical response to this "bu bu but you tinfoil hat conspiracy-tards think everything is a conspiracy. My news tells the truth, they never would lie about what's going on".

We can't help them.

 

[Raptor]

These groups feed off infamy. Theyre like trolls who happen to like killing people. The media keeps giving what they want

 

[thekingsmen]

These groups feed off infamy. Theyre like trolls who happen to like killing people. The media keeps giving what they want

Word as people who read up on serial killers, egotistical-manics, social-paths know that they feed off advertisement of their work or of them. The more you talk about them, the more they want to do it. Only problem with that here is media knows exactly want it's doing for personal gain.