Militants 'hired Kenyan mall shop'
Source: BBC
The militants who led the attack on a Kenyan mall hired a shop there in the weeks leading up to the siege, senior security sources have told the BBC.
This gave them access to service lifts at Westgate enabling them to stockpile weapons and ammunition.
Having pre-positioned weapons they were able to re-arm quickly and repel the security forces.
Sixty-seven people are known to have died in the four-day siege. Kenya's Red Cross says 61 others are still missing.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24306648
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)collapsing), Iraq war, Rape of the Country's treasures and the 99% by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act, NAFTA, Citizen's United, Torture....Waterboarding...
Many more examples are out there. Yeah when their through, the US will look like a bombed out mall.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)helpful.
There are enough bad things they are doing to need to resort to this.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)again social services. Why don't you start looking at whats really going on, since you seem to ignore everything else listed.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)helpful. And downright demeaning of those who were raped, tortured, murdered in that mall.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)someone more receptive.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)"a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful."
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)How about "carnage happens everywhere"?
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)How many of those missing people are dead?
How many of the dead are attackers?
Did any attackers get away?
How many of the people arrested so far were actual attackers (as opposed to accomplices or sympathizers)?
Why is it taking so long to get answers?
quadrature
(2,049 posts)the 'guards' were tipped off
(and ran off before the bullets started flying)
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)I found an interesting article, explaining more of it all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/sunday-review/making-sense-of-kenyas-westgate-mall-massacre.html?pagewanted=all
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)Fourteen of the missing have been found alive and seven bodies were in the morgue, it said.
The government has said 67 people were killed after al-Shabab militants stormed the Westgate centre in the capital, Nairobi, on 21 September.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24328836