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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Oh no..prayers.
From the BBC live link I posted:
1938: British journalist Daniel Howden was at the scene of the attack.
Speaking to BBC News, he described harrowing eyewitness accounts, including one witness who said he was released by the attackers after showing his ID with a Muslim-sounding name.
He added that an Indian man who was standing next to him was asked for the name of the Prophet’s mother and when he was unable to answer, he was shot dead.
Muhamad Kamau maina @kamau_muhamad 21m there will be no negotiations, the hostages are not being killed just to prolong the attack 4 the desired media effect #westgate @hsm_press
Muhamad Kamau maina @kamau_muhamad 12m mujahiden sniper in @ #westgate has been able with high precision and accuracy kill kuffar encamping around the mall @hsm_press
Kenyan president speaking to country now- say he lost family members in attack.
This news brought to you by the Kenya Tourism Bureau
Down with the NRA! Those murderous gun nuts are responsible for this!
Somehow.
/libtard
Says 39 killed, 150 wounded.
Horrible. Just catching up.
Thanks for the ping.
NOW: Very heavy gunfire at kenya shopping mall. Perhaps final assault on gunmen. Must keep hostages in mind.
SNIP
The Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre said an uncertain number of shoppers and staff were being held by the gunmen, as a massive police and army operation went on into the early hours of Sunday -- more than 12 hours after the attack began.
It also said that security forces had managed to free five hostages in the early hours of the morning.
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Two Canadians killed in mall assault.
One a diplomat.
This won't be in the news at all. It doesn't fit the Left's template. Just like the shooting in Chicago the other day, completely ignored.
This could never happen here. Please turn in your weapons ASAP.
Per BBC:
1125: Israeli forces have entered Westgate centre, the AFP news agency reports an unnamed security source as saying.
AP reporter on scene says two explosions at mall within last half hour.
Two names of terrorists with al-Shabaab are from th U.S.
https://twitter.com/HSM_PRESS2
I am perplexed by Drudge. Yesterday he had a link up on this story but took it down early afternoon. Since then not ONE headline on his site about this huge story.
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