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Terror group calls for attacks on London shopping areas

By Danielle Wightman-Stone

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Al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group, has released a video calling for attacks on London’s Oxford Street and the Westfield shopping centres in the latest jihadist threat to the UK.

The video, which lasts more than an hour, called for its followers to “hasten to heaven” by attacking some of the country’s busiest shopping areas, as well as threatening venues in America and Canada and “Jewish-owned” centres.

Counter-terrorism police in the UK, released a statement saying that they were aware of the video and were “assessing the content”, while Jeh Johnson, the US homeland security secretary, warned shoppers of the Mall of America to be “particularly careful”.

Al-Shabab was responsible for the 2013 attack on Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya that killed 67 people.

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