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Gunmen Storm Nairobi Mall, at Least 25 Killed (On scene photos by Reuters)
Reuters ^ | Saturday, September 21, 2013

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedakenya; alshabaab; alshabab; banglist; globaljihad; jihad; kenya; kenyamallmassacre; killingamericans; killingcanadians; killingchristians; killingforeigners; mall; malls; nairobi; obamaspeople; religionofpieces; threatmatrix; westgate
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To: SE Mom

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.


61 posted on 09/22/2013 10:24:21 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom; maggief

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.


62 posted on 09/22/2013 10:25:55 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: kristinn

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.


63 posted on 09/22/2013 10:30:12 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: ScaniaBoy; annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; ...
Links from the beginning of the Kenya Mall attack.


64 posted on 09/22/2013 10:33:09 AM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work, You gotta earn them.)
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To: SE Mom; maggief
Screen grab of al-Shabaab Twiiter post of names of Westgate attackers.


65 posted on 09/22/2013 10:34:31 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: kristinn

Nice catch. Unreal.

I think they’re 7 hours ahead- so it’s getting dark now.


66 posted on 09/22/2013 10:39:21 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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RT of al-Shabaab tweet of purported U.S. jihadi at Westgate:

"@HSM_PRESS2: gen mustafe noorudiin. 27 y.o from kansas city. MO. #westgate #alshabaab"

67 posted on 09/22/2013 10:40:29 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Cowboy Bob
I hope the killers were African-American.

They were probably African-Africans.

68 posted on 09/22/2013 10:42:48 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering FREAKS!)
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To: kristinn

Live tv in Kenya- it’s raining now.

http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/b6519-NTV-Kenya.htm


69 posted on 09/22/2013 10:44:34 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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Heighlender ‏@heighlender 51s RT“@DRice_NYC: Senior Kenyan gov official: the woman attacker at #westgate in #nairobi is the widow ofone of the bombers from London in 2005
70 posted on 09/22/2013 10:49:16 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: kristinn

New twitter for al-Shabaab

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Westgate&src=hash&f=realtime


71 posted on 09/22/2013 11:06:31 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom; maggief
New al-Shabaab Twitter feed says this is "no more than a drill for a bigger event.

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

72 posted on 09/22/2013 11:31:08 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: SE Mom; maggief

Also says five hostages killed for “misbehaving.”


73 posted on 09/22/2013 11:32:39 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: kristinn
Sean Michael Thomas ‏@seanthomas_RT 3m #Kenyan officials say an operation to end terrorist siege has begun, standoff to end 'tonight' - @AP; #Kenya #Nairobi #Westgate
74 posted on 09/22/2013 11:36:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

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”


75 posted on 09/22/2013 11:40:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Whoa...

Hope that’s a head game someone’s playing. But who knows anymore.


76 posted on 09/22/2013 11:49:32 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: kristinn

With the police wearing civilian clothing, one would think it would be difficult to tell the good guys from the bad.


77 posted on 09/22/2013 11:50:52 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: kristinn

Those guys could have attacked a US Mall, where the MSM would do everything it could to blame the TEA Party


78 posted on 09/22/2013 12:07:37 PM PDT by GeronL
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67 posted on 9/22/2013 12:40:29 PM by kristinn: “@HSM_PRESS2: gen mustafe noorudiin. 27 y.o from kansas city. MO. #westgate #alshabaab”

Ugh.

This guy lived four hours away from me.

79 posted on 09/23/2013 4:28:02 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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