Militants 'hired Kenyan mall shop'

[Bosonic]

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

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[Katashi_itto]

1. Looks sort of like what the Republicans have planned for the US.

[Posteritatis]

2. *facepalm* (nt)

[uppityperson]

3. wtf? Republicans are going to rape, murder, torture at malls?

[penultimate]

6. Not just malls, but theme parks and apple stores too.

[Katashi_itto]

7. Reduction in SNAP-Starvation, No infrastructural spending -people murdered with neglect(Bridge

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]

9. "Rape of the Country's treasures" does not equal rape of people. Hyperbole is neither needed nor

helpful.

There are enough bad things they are doing to need to resort to this.

[Katashi_itto]

11. True Rape of the Treasury equates to murdering people, since it results in excuses to reduce

again social services. Why don't you start looking at whats really going on, since you seem to ignore everything else listed.

[uppityperson]

12. None of it = rape, murder, torture at malls. Yes, they are doing awful stuff but hyperbole is not

helpful. And downright demeaning of those who were raped, tortured, murdered in that mall.

[Katashi_itto]

13. Whatever, carnage happens everywhere. Like here in our own country. Ply the platitudes with

someone more receptive.

[uppityperson]

14. I do not think that word means what you think it means.

[Katashi_itto]

15. I do not think you understand what you say.

"a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful."

[uppityperson]

16. You found a definition, congratulations. Now where would you apply it?

How about "carnage happens everywhere"?

[Katashi_itto]

17. Apply it to your own scribbles.

[uppityperson]

18. No platitudes there. Here is one for you. A stitch in time saves 9.

[Katashi_itto]

19. Gosh...profound.

[uppityperson]

20. Everything happens for a reason

[Katashi_itto]

21. No matter where you go...there you are.

[Codeine]

8. You're not helping. nt

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. There are still a lot of unanswered questions about this:

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]

5. an obvious inside job ...

the 'guards' were tipped off
(and ran off before the bullets started flying)

[uppityperson]

10. They had rented a space a month prior, stored ammo, weapons, etc.

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]

22. Kenya's Westgate siege: Number of missing reduced to 39

The Kenyan Red Cross has said the number of missing in the Westgate shopping centre attack has gone down to 39 from an earlier figure of 61.

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