The murder of nearly 150 students, selected because they were Christians, highlights the need for greater international collective will to defeat terrorism The news broke on Holy Thursday of the deadliest terrorist attack in Kenya since the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi. At dawn, elements of the Somali-based Islamist group al-Shabaab stormed the campus of Garissa University College, in the north-eastern town of Garissa, and took several hundred students hostage.By the time security agents ended the siege 15 hours later, at least 142 mostly Christian students had been slaughtered, and several dozen injured. Survivors crawled out of hiding to give chilling accounts of cold-blooded murder presided by terrorists who took their time to taunt and then either stab or shoot innocent