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Meanwhile, one of the Kenyan Mall terrorists is identified as a man from far north of there – The US warns of another mall attack apparently in the works – Edward Snowden says he doesn’t have anymore secrets. 

A relative says a Norwegian citizen of Somali origin is suspected of helping to plan and carry out the terrorist attack on Kenya’s Westgate Mall, where 67 people were killed last month.  He is 23-year old Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, who came with his family to Norway in 1999 but reportedly had a hard time fitting in and had run-ins with the law.  The terrorist group al-Shabaab is known to recruit such people who pine for their birthplaces, but are far enough removed to be ignorant of what’s actually happening there.  Norwegian police have reportedly traveled to Nairobi to cooperate with Kenyan authorities.  American news network CNN released surveillance footage from the mall showing the terrorist gunmen in the mall, making cell phone calls and praying in between massacring unarmed civilians.

The United States Embassy in Kampala has issued a warning about a Westgate-like attack in Uganda’s capital city.  The alert on the Embassy’s website says officials continue “to assess reports that a Westgate-style attack may soon occur in Kampala,” but says officials do not know the timing or target of the potential attack.  Ugandan security forces are on alert and are keeping a strict vigil on the visitors at Nakumatt Oasis shopping center in Kampala.

A court in Santiago found four men guilty of the sadistic murder of a young gay man, a crime that led Chile’s congress to pass a hate crimes law.  The men are convicted of beating Daniel Zamudio, breaking his leg with a large rock, bashing him with bottles, and carving nazi swastikas into his body.  Gay rights campaigners say they are satisfied with the convictions.  Prosecutors are asking for jail terms ranging from eight years to life in prison when the men are sentenced at the end of the month.

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says he is not longer in possession of any of America’s spying secrets.  Snowden claims that he gave everything he had to journalists he met with in Hong Kong, the first stop on his life on the lam, and therefore had nothing to give to Russian intelligence when he eventually received temporary asylum in Moscow.  His former employers in the NSA aren’t commenting, but American officials and their proxies have repeatedly expressed concerns Snowden’s cache of secrets would fall into hostile hands.

A watchdog group says that this year has seen a spike in Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank this year.  Peace Now reports that there has been a 70 percent increase in housings starts in the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period the previous year.  Palestinians view the settlements are the main obstacle to peace.

Amnesty International is asking Iran to spare the life of a convicted drug dealer who survived his hanging sentence. The condemned man, named as “Alireza M”, was found alive in a morgue after being hanged at a jail In Iran’s northeast.  Iranian officials say the death was and is “death”, and the man will be hung again.

The family of nazi war criminal Erich Priebke is demanding the return of his corpse, which apparently is missing after his aborted funeral.  Priebke’s funeral outside Rome, near the very caves where he helped massacre 335 civilians on Hitler’s orders in 1944, came to an abrupt halt when protesters decided they didn’t want the nonsense in their town.  Police aren’t commenting on the body’s location.  Germany doesn’t want it back lest it become a neo-nazi rallying point; neither does Argentina, where he hid out for decades following World War II.

A Florida man caused a lockdown at a shopping mall in Sarasota, when he spread his late fiancee’s ashes in an eyelasses store.  Employees didn’t know what he was spreading around, and called security; police and firefighters arrived and quickly secured the scene.  The man said the dead woman apparently had some connection to the chain of eyeglasses stores, and was apologetic afterwards.