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Kenyan army caught lying in Twitter propaganda warDate : 12/01/2012 Publication
: German Press Agency dpa Category
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Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab scored a major victory in its Twitter propaganda war with Kenya this week after Nairobi's military spokesman was very publicly caught lying.
Kenya sent its military into Somalia in October following a string of kidnappings of tourists and aid workers on its soil, which Nairobi blamed on al-Shabaab. While fighting on the ground has been limited due to bad weather, it has burst into life on the social media site.
The Twitter battle took a new twist Wednesday when Major Emmanuel Chirchir, the spokesman, posted images of a man being stoned to death, claiming the victim was a Kenyan being executed in the Somali insurgent stronghold of Kismayo.