A recent threat by the al Qaeda-affiliated Somali terrorist group al-Shabab to attack shopping malls in Europe and the Mall of America in Minnesota was not credible, according to an internal State Department security report.
The threat was based on an al-Shabab video released Friday through Twitter that said the group would conduct shooting attacks at seven "American or Jewish-owned shopping centers across the world." The attacks would be similar to the slaughter in September 2013 at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where 71 people were killed by 10 to 15 al-Shabab terrorists.
In addition to the Mall of America, the largest shopping center in the United States, others said to be targeted included the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta; the Oxford Street, Westfield London and Westfield Stratford malls in London; and two Paris malls, the Les Quatre Temps and the Forum des Halles.
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