no orders to STAND DOWN here...
Posted on 09/21/2013 11:23:36 AM PDT by kristinn
Excerpt of article accompanying 14 photos of attack at source link:
Militant gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 25 people, including children, and sending scores fleeing in panic from shops and restaurants onto the streets, according to witnesses and the Red Cross.
Shooting continued hours after the initial assault as troops surrounded the Westgate mall and police and soldiers combed the building, hunting down the attackers shop by shop. A police officer inside the building said the gunmen were barricaded inside the Nakumatt supermarket, one of Kenya's biggest chains.
"We got three bodies from this shop," he said, standing a dozen meters from the supermarket entrance and pointing to a children's shoe shop where blood lay in pools.
He turned to a nearby hamburger bar where piped music still played and food lay abandoned in a similar bloody scene. "And a couple of bodies here."
The Westgate mall attack was the single biggest since al Qaeda's east Africa cell bombed the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, in 1998 killing more than two hundred people. In 2002, the same militant cell attacked an Israeli-owned hotel and tried to shoot down an Israeli jet in a coordinated attack.
Tiles were smeared with blood, bullet casings were strewn on the floor and shop windows were shattered. A policeman dragged the corpse of a young girl across the floor and lay her on a stretcher. Two plainclothes policemen lay on the floor with guns trained on the Nakumatt supermarket entrance.
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This just in....Nairobi SWAT Team told to Stand Down!. Investigation promised. /Sarc
Probably intended to send a message to the Obama regime.
Anglicans my sources tell me....
When you see this in your local papers, it won’t be anything like the reality. The part about jihadis targeting only normal people will be gone.
Thank you for the link. Kenya seems like a real melting pot of people caring for their fellow man.
Pretty intense. God bless these poor people- just out shopping. Apparently this mall is used by lots of foreigners and “rich Kenyans”..so these madmen knew who thy were going after.
The photographer has rally captured the sense of what it’s like to be in the midst of the evil.
rally=really
Westgate Mall twitter page
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Westgate&src=hash
with pics and a link to live coverage
“Quakers? Anabaptists? Buddhists? Any ideas?”
Maybe they were Anamists? That would be possible in Africa...
The TERRORISTS are tweeting live???? OMG.
Terroist attack as a reality show..
BBC keeping up- amazing video of people escaping.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24189669
They are likely using weapons smuggled through Benganzi.
Nope! It those boys on bikes. You know. The ones with the white shirts, neckties, and black name tags.
Members of my church are missionaries close to there. They go to this mall. They are ok; but family members of people at the school they work at were killed; more than one.
They are updating on FB...
The photo journalist was likely in very great danger taking these photos.
I notice the man placing himself in danger while reaching out to the little girl ( likely 3 or 4 years old) running down the middle of the hall.
The ultimate Knock Out game.
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