Listening to NPR today I heard, from seemingly qualified interviewees:
US created the current atmosphere in Somalia when they destroyed a society gravitating towards socialism. Can't have any of that can we?
Somali's have a regional reputation for being pretty hardcore fighters. Ask the Marines for confirmation.
US created an incubator for this shooting by creating the incubator for Al Shabab.
So, crush government in Somalia because we do not like the format helping to cause and create widespread suffering. What do we expect when people fight back?
You say, why attack a mall? Al Shabab says why should you have a mall and development when you have crushed our society?
On side, sickly humorous note. Djibouti provides the airfields for the CIA's drone traffic. So many drones are going up that they need new air traffic control system because the high volume of drones are interfering with commercial flights.
People have much of what was learned by Cheney and Rumsfeld in the 1970's when cleaning up Operation Minaret messes. They were ordered to clean it up and instead used the knowledge to create the messes we have in 2013.
Hate the message not the messenger. I do not condone violence of any sort, especially government sponsored violence and terrorism.