Nations in Distress

My Way News - 39 dead in Kenya mall attack; hostages still held
My Way News reports: "Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi's top mall Saturday.  [...] At least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the assault, Kenya's president announced on national TV, while disclosing that his close family members were among the dead. [...] the al-Qaida-linked gunmen asked the victims they had cornered if they were Muslim: Those who answered yes were free to go, several witnesses said. The non-Muslims were not."

Comment: Think about that, all they had to do was renounce their true faith and claim to be a Muslim to escape the threat of death.  An unknown number of people refused to do that and remain hostage. Wow.

My Way News - Assault on Iraq funeral, other attacks kill 96
My Way News reports: "Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks around Iraq that killed at least 96 people on Saturday. The assaults, the latest in a months-long surge of violence, are a chilling reminder of insurgents' determination to re-ignite sectarian conflict more than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion."