Sunday, 6 October 2013

Kenyan Policemen unveils the surreptitious behind terrorism in mall attack

Kenya is Africa's fifth largest tourist destination, welcoming roughly 1.8 million visitors each year. Nearly half come from Britain and Europe, while visitors from the United States became an increasing share of the total during the past two years, according to Kenya's Ministry of Tourism. Kenyan attack has made difficult for Kenyan people and tourists to even breathe freely.
Kenya's terrorism police unit suspected the main cause behind terrorism. Police men has divulged television footage that shows two men entering a local bank where they collected money and paid for a car that was used to bring terrorists to Nairobi's Westgate Mall, indicating the deadly attack which was planned weeks in advance.

The head of Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, Boniface Mwaniki, said the men had gone to Barclays Bank on 6th of September and retrieved enough money to pay for the 340,000 shilling cars.
The Mitsubishi Lancer was found overcrowding the main entrance hall of the mall with two grenade pins inside, signifying the grenades had been thrown from inside the vehicle. Several survivors of the attack, who were near the entrance of the Westgate, said that the terrorists first lobbed grenades into the interior of the mall, a blast which caused the glass front elevation of a jewellery shop to shatter, stunning the unarmed guards, who abandoned their posts.

"If one knows how a grenade works, he would know how to remove the pin, and then throw it. The pin gets dropped wherever someone is unpinning it" Mwaniki said. He said all these to explain how police force used the location of the pin to identity the vehicle as the traducers car. 
After long time shoppers returned to the mall to retrieve their abandoned cars, the grey-colored Mitsubishi remained unclaimed in front of the shopping centre, he said.

The closed circuit television footage that was showed to the reporters on Sunday disclosed two men entering the Queensway branch of Barclays in Nairobi. One of the men is identified as light-skinned, around 5-feet-8-inches tall and believed to be Kenyan of Somali origin, from Mandera, a town near the Kenya-Somali border, according to a statement. Police identified him as Abd Kadir Haret Muhamed, also known as Muhamed Hussen.
The suspect is married to a Kenyan woman, Shurekha Hussen, who was recently arrested by police and helped investigators identify the second suspect, Mwaniki said.
The second man who was involved in the massacre is captured on camera and is believed to be Somali, identified as Adan Dheq, also known as Hussen Abdi Ali and Abdulahi Dugon Subow, police said. He is 5-feet-5-inches tall.

Mwaniki cautioned that the two suspects identified on Sunday may not have been inside the mall during the attack.
"We don't yet know. But it appears that these were the guys doing the logistics," Mwaniki said.
Terrorism has become a global crisis that not only happened in Kenya and affected the kenyan tourists but is happening in other developing countries too which is affecting the country’s economy indirectly.

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