Remember that Kenyan mall attack where some savage islamists stormed a popular Nairobi shopping mall, killing dozens of people and causing havoc for several days?
Well, according to NYPD investigators, the whole operation was conducted by four bad guys, armed with small arms (rifles, pistols and maybe a few grenades), who left among the terrified civilians on the first day.
Subsequent fatalities were either collateral damage among the civilians or blue-on-blue deaths from friendly fire.
Yes, that’s right: The Kenyan military used anti-tank rockets and heavy weapons against a mall that was occupied only by terrified shoppers hiding out until “help” arrived.
It also seems the Kenyan military, when they weren’t shooting one another, were looting the entire mall.
Only four shooters at Kenya mall and they may have escaped alive, says NYPD
(NBC News) – 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.
Another lying Kenyan, who would have thought that there was more than one?