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Terrorism in Kenya
Acts of terrorism: USA targeted abroad and preparedness
There have been long running enmity between the U.S.A. And the Middle East, and in specific the terror groups who have successfully managed to brand themselves as the ambassadors fighting for the interests of the Islam nation. After the 9/11 dark event the world changed and with the reactionary treatment of the U.S.A. To the event, the terrorists found alternative means of targeting the U.S.A.: their agencies and agents abroad.
In this case the Kenya will be picked as the case study geographical region and looked at in terms of how terrorists have twisted the war on terror by Kenya, to be a USA issue and hence targeting retaliatory attacks on the country's lowest citizens as well as the preparedness to emergencies and management of terror disasters that the country has and how the U.S.A. is helping in enhancing these two aspects.
In a historic perspective, it is important to note that Kenya has a long standing cordial relationship with our country. The U.S.A. has several areas of interest in Kenya as a beacon of democracy and peace and the fact that Kenya hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees of war and natural calamities like famine from other regions. Kenya also hosts training grounds for several countries Britain inclusive (Crown, 2012). The reason for picking the country is the delicate balance of its diplomatic relations bearing that it is closely neighbored by the Islamic and chaotic Somalia to the East, volatile Sudan to the North and Ethiopia that occasionally poses small arm proliferation and raids, the non-democratic Uganda to the West and it still maintains the peace and stems terror at its best.
These factors among many that will be discussed puts Kenya at a delicate podium in its significance and a prime target in the region for terrorists targets, which it has fallen victim several times.
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