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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Per BBC
1707: “We fear the death toll... could be much, much higher than what we have, judging from the bodies sighted inside,” a police officer is quoted by AFP as saying.
Twitter has now suspended that account. They are doing everyone a great disservice by taking down these accounts during the attack. They are great for gathering intel.
Agree. One would LIKE to think they had a sound reason for suspending it- but I don’t trust anyone in any government to make smart choices ...well..maybe Israeli intel.
Nice catch. Unreal.
I think they’re 7 hours ahead- so it’s getting dark now.
"@HSM_PRESS2: gen mustafe noorudiin. 27 y.o from kansas city. MO. #westgate #alshabaab"
They were probably African-Africans.
Also claims three more U.S. jihadis:
shafie die 25 y.o from tucson arizona. #westgate #AlShabaab
abdishakur sheikh hassan 22 y.o from maine. #westgate
abdikarem ali mohamed 21 y.o from illinois. #westgate #AlShabaab
Also says five hostages killed for “misbehaving.”
Found this tweet on RT.com
“our mujahideen are all under 25 years old. 7 of them having completed training in black water facility in north california! #Westgate”
Whoa...
Hope that’s a head game someone’s playing. But who knows anymore.
With the police wearing civilian clothing, one would think it would be difficult to tell the good guys from the bad.
Those guys could have attacked a US Mall, where the MSM would do everything it could to blame the TEA Party
Ugh.
This guy lived four hours away from me.
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