Nairobi mall attack: Westgate was named as a target a year ago

[Eugene]

Source: The Telegraph

Nairobi mall attack: Westgate was named as a target a year ago

As the row between Kenya's internal security agencies escalated on Friday, a file of
alerts seen by The Daily Telegraph details 29 separate intelligence warnings linked to
al-Shabaab activity in Kenya in the last 12 months.

By Mike Pflanz, Nairobi
8:14PM BST 27 Sep 2013

Exactly a year before last weekend's shopping centre attack, one names three Islamist agents who were in Nairobi and "planning to mount suicide attacks on undisclosed date, targeting Westgate Mall".

Four months later, on February 1, there were warnings that al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab operatives were plotting attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa.

"The envisaged modus operandi include, but is not exclusive to, Mumbai-attack style, where the operatives storm into a building with guns and grenades and probably hold hostages," said the documents, from the National Intelligence service and passed to The Daily Telegraph.

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Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/kenya/10340821/Nairobi-mall-attack-Westgate-was-named-as-a-target-a-year-ago.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Then you'd have thought they'd have taken greater care over this issue : See

Militants 'hired Kenyan mall shop' http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023742036

[jakeXT]

2. A senator warned 2 months in advance

Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko has accused the National Intelligence Service of culpability in Saturday’s Westgate attack.

Sonko sensationally claimed in the Senate yesterday that he had two months ago warned the NIS of the imminent attacks but he was ignored.


http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-137195/i-told-nis-attack-says-sonko