US Homeland Lists of Terror Groups Killing in Kenya
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Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabab tops the list of most killings/maiming. The Nandi tribe, Kanu party, is listed alongside 23 others (Mungiki included) as terror groups that have killed and maimed in Kenya.
In total 1055 people have been killed in Kenya from 254 terror attacks, leaving 5031 with permanent scars.
Read on http://www.start.umd.edu/start/publications/br/STARTBackgroundReport_alShabaabKenya_Sept2013.pdf
Full NYPD (New York Police) report on Westgate
Follow the link below and get the full report on Westgate from NYPD.
Muslims accuse Kenya police of butchery to please US, UK
“We’re Tired of Taking You to the Court”
Human Rights Abuses by Kenya’s
Anti-Terrorism Police Unit
(follow the link and read the full report)
http://192.185.143.58/~futurepr/muhuri/images/tired_taking_you_court_11-19-2013.pdf
Only four shooters at Kenya mall and they may have escaped alive, says NYPD
[CAPTION] Tourists enjoy a sunny moment in Nairobi under the watchful eye of a private security guard. Westgate reports commend the actions of private security.
Only four men may have carried out the attack on a Kenyan mall that killed more than 60 civilians in September, and they probably escaped alive, according to an NYPD report made public Tuesday.
The report debunked many of the assertions made by Kenyan authorities, who claimed that as many as 15 attackers were involved, including some who might be foreign nationals, and that they were holding hostages.
More than 60 civilians and six soldiers died in the Sept. 21 assault by terrorists from the al Qaeda-affiliated group al Shabaab on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. After a two-day siege and a series of explosions, Kenyan authorities said they had cleared the mall and killed four attackers.
At a Manhattan press conference Tuesday morning, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said investigators didn’t know “with certainty” how many people were involved, “but we believe there were only four shooters.”
The NYPD report also said the attackers carried only light weapons, and that there is no evidence any of them tried to take hostages or remained in the mall after 12:15 a.m. on Sept. 22. It also said the female British jihadi known as the “White Widow” was probably never in the mall, despite tabloid rumors, and that the Kenyan military looted the high-end shopping complex.
Lt. Detective Commander Kevin Yorke, who prepared and presented the report, also questioned the Kenyan authorities’ theory that the attackers died when explosions collapsed portions of the mall.
“As a cop, I’m very skeptical of claims until I see proof,” said Yorke, and added that there is “a lot of doubt in my mind it is true.”
The NYPD sent several detectives to Nairobi with the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate the assault, and Yorke assembled their findings into the report.
According to the NYPD’s reconstruction of events, the four attackers operated in two-man teams and coordinated their movements by cellphone. After throwing three grenades and entering the mall, they used AK-47s in single-fire mode to shoot their victims. More than one-third of the dead were attending a children’s cooking contest that was being held in tents in the mall’s roof parking lot. The attackers killed them within 15 minutes of arriving at the mall.
The report said the attackers had grenades and several hundred bullets in eight magazines, but no body armor, handguns or heavy weapons. They did not try to take hostages, but killed as many victims as they could, sparing some who could recite Muslim prayers or name the Prophet Mohammed’s mother. A Russian hand grenade was found on the roof with the pin removed but unexploded.
No women were involved. Rumors had circulated during the siege that British citizen Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of a suicide bomber who attacked the London train system and killed 26 people as part of the “7/7” plot.
The NYPD report credits private security guards and personnel with clearing many people from the mall, though some may have fired on each other since they didn’t use badges. Some civilians “played dead” as the terrorists walked past, while others who tried to hide, many in small stores, were shot dead.
Kenyan law enforcement initially thought they were responding to an armed robbery at the mall. The first Kenyan tactical team didn’t arrive until 1:45 p.m., about 90 minutes after the attack began, and the Kenyan police commissioner arrived at 1:50 p.m.
The police department tactical team entered the mall at 3 p.m., without police markings or identifications, and were fired on by Kenyan soldiers, killing the commander of the unit.
According to the NYPD report, the responding Kenyans “had no idea what the mall looked like internally,” and didn’t know they could access the closed circuit television system.
One terrorist was shot in the leg. The shooters tilted or destroyed cameras in order to hide their whereabouts. By 6 p.m. they were in a mall storeroom near the loading docks, and waited there for six hours, tending their wounded comrade and praying. They can no longer be seen on closed circuit footage after 12:15 p.m., when the NYPD believes they slipped away.
The siege continued for two more days. In his presentation, Yorke dismissed the Kenyan government’s claims that 10 to 15 shooters were involved or that the terrorists had created smoke by setting mattresses on fire. He said he didn’t know what had caused the mall to collapse, but said the Kenyan military may have used rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles on the building, and that heat from fires caused by the explosions may have weakened the poorly built structure.
Yorke said that while the Kenyan military may not have killed any of the attackers, there was “significant” physical and video evidence that they had looted the mall.
Tom Winter, NBC News
Nairobi Mall Attack: Sleuths Go ‘Tweet’ in Pursuit of Insider
[CAPTION]: Forensic investigators working on this picture (courtesy Al-Shabab on Twitter) and CCTV footage from the KDF (link below) suggest insider involvement that could unmask the face of Westgate Mall attack.
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Forensic experts are now investigating whether an insider within the security agencies may have been involved in Westgate Mall tragedy in Nairobi on September 21.
“We are chasing clues on Twitter… we are looking at this picture (above),” said the expert. “We are into much less digging and into more lab work, computers and stuff. Right now our computer section is doing a lot of work, even though Twitter is yet to respond to our official request for support.”
An alleged Twitter account from Al-Shabab released the picture in the early morning of September 23, almost 48 hours after mowing down hapless victims caught up in the mayhem that Saturday noon.
While releasing the image (above) that has captivated forensic investigators, the alleged Al Shabab gloated in an account @HSM_PressOffice (now established to be a fake Al-Shabab Twitter account that was broadcasting from within the doomed mall) over their exploits. The account had been set up that vey same day.
It gloated: “ a 14-hour standoff relayed in 1400 rounds of bullets and 140 characters of vengeance and still ongoing. Good morning Kenya! It’s slowly approaching the 24-hour mark – the darkest 24 hours in Nairobi – highlighting the sheer fragility of the Kenyan nation. The Mujahideen are still firmly in control of the situation inside Westgate Mall. Negotiation is out of the question!”
The forensic investigator doubts this message was from Al-Shabab, given their knowledge of the organisation and its communication techniques.
The forensic team are studying the Al-Shabab picture, along with the statements: “a 14-hour standoff relayed in 1400 rounds of bullets and 140 characters … It’s slowly approaching the 24-hour mark – the darkest 24 hours in Nairobi.”
The forensic investigator says: “This was a coded message, the giveaway being 14, 14, 14 and 24, 24 and the words ‘darkest hour’ in Nairobi.
“The unofficial decoding is: “The number fourteen is repeated three times, the number 1 also three times, the number ‘4’ three times and ‘0’ three times and we know three floors went down inside the mall. The second set of numbers could read September 24 after midnight (24-hrs) and evacuate by 3 am (Nairobi’s darkest hour).”
Highlighting the picture on his laptop computer again, the forensic investigator picks out the difference in the picture, and a copy of CCTV footage handed over by the KDF.
“Stop … stop! Here, go a little back … there, play now; pause … you see,” he points out at a frozen frame from the CCTV footage.
We are on Cam2 13/09/21 13:07:02DVR [courtesy CNN] : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOq6owl8k4M ]
The date is September 21, 2013 on Cam 2 and the time is around lunchtime in Nairobi, seven minutes-and-two seconds past 1pm, freeze the KDF CCTV footage at that precise point and compare it with the picture above.
The screen-shot from the CCTV footage provided to forensics by KDF, at this point, is the exact match, angle, lighting and calibration to the screenshot that Al-Shabab allegedly released to show that their fighters were still in control of the reign of terror.
“This [picture] was not [taken by] Al-Shabab,” insists the forensic expert.
The expert argues the photo was a screenshot less than an hour after the shooters walked in. Yet it was released two days later to shock the nation into waiting until KDF completed its “mop up operation”.
“Ask yourself, if KDF was in charge of the floors, including the CCTV room, how did the terrorists (attackers) regain control of the CCTV room, download the clips, upload them on a computer, rewind an old clip, play, freeze, capture screen-shot and Tweet,” the expert questions.
Indeed asking myself, to find answers to pertinent questions, one must look back.
None was helpful, not even Foreign Secretary Amina Mohammed, who brazenly told a global audience on Monday, 23 September, the attackers were Americans from Minnesota, Britons, Canadians, Finnish and Samantha Lefthwaithe.
Hot in the heels of her statement, another tweet from the fake Al-Shabab account was announced by CNN and reiterated word for word what Amina had said: “three of the attackers are from the United States, two are from Somalia and there is one each from Canada, Finland, Kenya and the United Kingdom.”
It was not Al-Shabab tweeting, but somebody else inside Westgate with the KDF. Al-Shabab were not happy with this. Their account was already shut and someone else was posting terror tweets using their name. Al-Shabab resorted to e-mail denouncing the tweets about Westgate saying “Until recently our account was @HSMPROffice and that has been suspended and we do not currently have any other active account.”
Drawing wrath on another fake account purporting to be Al-Shabab, the Somali militants wondered why that account had never been shut since 1 March when it was first set up, according to the complaints they made via email.
The forensic experts have promised to share more information as it emerges.
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