Posted on 04/06/2015 8:11:36 AM PDT by McGruff
Kenyan authorities had intelligence that a university in Garissa could be attacked, but after the alarm sounded during last week's massacre, the country's rapid response team was stuck in Nairobi for hours arranging for transport, a police source told CNN on Monday.
It's not clear why the elite team was stuck in the Kenyan capital, roughly 370 kilometers (230 miles) west of the attack, but the police source in Garissa said that Kenyan politicians and Nairobi-based journalists arrived on the scene before the team did. Journalists on the ground corroborated that report.
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Sounds like someone purposefully stalled the team.
Typical third world ineptness and corruption? Authorities sympathetic to the rebels? Some explanation in between?
Yep, Inside Job.
Sounds like someone purposefully stalled the team.
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Could also have been due to lack of practice. Anything involving rapid response requires intensive practice under worst-case scenarios.
Are there no local police? Or are the local police cowards?
There should not be any Federal funding of scientific research. If Federal funding is available for science it is inevitable that politics will corrupt science.
Even if the elite team could get on a helicopter immediately they were at least an hour away. Students would have been killed regardless for over an hour.
It's not clear why the elite team was stuck in the Kenyan capital, roughly 370 kilometers (230 miles) west of the attack
Are there no local police? Or are the local police cowards?
There should not be any Federal funding of scientific research. If Federal funding is available for science it is inevitable that politics will corrupt science.
Even if the elite team could get on a helicopter immediately they were at least an hour away. Students would have been killed regardless for over an hour.
Just what do you expect? It’s Africa.
That’s what I was thinking also.
I wouldn’t call the cops cowards....Check out the videos of the local police during the attack...some had handguns and others had nothing...with a few having AK’s. They just couldn’t handle that kind of fight.
It’s not a “rapid response team” if it’s needed in minutes/seconds but is physically stationed hours away.
Journalists could arrive first because they are scattered with some closer than others (and closer than 230 miles), don’t _need_ (as in risk death without) the whole team & a ton of equipment, and just need be present in the general area to start their work (not line-of-sight or closer).
Once again, why to carry your own defensive tools rather than rely on complete strangers who are minutes/hours away when seconds count.
maybe brother in law got the money originally intended for the helicopters.
maybe brother in law got the money originally intended for the helicopters.
I was wondering how such a small group of terrorists were able to kill so many.
All this damage was caused by just four diaperheads wearing suicide vests. By all accounts there were two armed guards in the neighborhood. The two should have been enough to hold off the four unless the two were complicit. But I can’t find any word as to what happened to the two guards. AlJazeera says the four finally blew their vests, probably after getting wounded by the police that eventually showed up. But the local police had been warned and still say their info was skimpy. Skimpy? lean over here Skippy-—I’ll show you skimpy.
I remember videos from the Mumbai attack. Police were hiding behind stone pillars with Enfields while the terrorists were within 100 yds in the open. Easy head shots with those rifles but nobody shooting.
Obama campaigned for Kenya strong man, Raila Odinga, stumping for him all over Kenya. Raised big money for him. When Odinga lost in 2006 on a platform demanding Sharia Law in autonomous Muslim Provinces, he led his followers in a rampage in which some 3,000 Christians were massacred.
OBTW, for a sitting US Senator to take an active part in foreign politics is illegal.
Yes Obama campaigned for Raila Odinga, in support of his coalition of hard leftists and Muslims. But not just because of his political affinity, Odinga is his cousin.
Apparently, when Obama was there on his “fact finding” (AKA illegal campaigning), the planning for the post-election mob violence was also underway. Right in the wheelhouse of the community organizer who brought us Occupy Wall Street, Furguson Missouri, Trayvonmania and a host of smaller mob events.
Odinga muscled his way into power and spent a few years stuffing his pockets with bribes and public money.
Maybe thanks to the same reality Vs. hype dichotomy that has haunted Obama, Raila Odinga was defeated in the 2013 election, and replaced by the Catholic Conservative candidate Uhuru Kenyatta.
I have been to four African countries. NOTHING is rapid in Africa.
(Well, the spread of corruption maybe.)
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