fredo sambuca: June 2017

Friday 23 June 2017

Kenyan Hero's Harrowing Tale of Rescues in Mall Massacre

Kenyan Hero's Harrowing Tale of Rescues in Mall Massacre Nairobi, Kenya- in one of the most memorable images to emerge from inside the Nairobi mall attacked last weekend by Islamic extremist, a 4-- year-- old girl is seen running toward a man who is reaching out a hand to pull her to safety' abcnews.go.com/blotter/kenya-west gate= mall-attack-al- Shabaab/story?id=20344043abcnews.go.com/blotter/kenya-west gate-mall-attack-al-Shabaab/story?id=20344043 as the gunmen began their rampage in Nairobi upscale Westgate Mall early Saturday afternoon, Haji got a text from his brother who was at the mall' until just a few weeks ago, his brother was an undercover counter-terrorism official battling organizations like at Shabab, the al Qaeda- linked group that has claimed responsibility for the four- day siege that left almost 70 people dead' Haji says he grew up around guns & lately had been carrying his pistol with him' when he arrived he quickly figured out his brother was not the target^ until just a few weeks ago, his brother was an undercover counter-terrorism official battling organizations like at Shabab, the at Qaeda-linked group that has claimed responsibility for the four-day siege that left almost 70 people dead' Haji says he grew up around guns & lately had been carrying his pistol with him' when he arrived he quickly figured out his brother was not the target* it was like a war zone he said' they were young girls, there were ladies, elderly people, some children'' the group had taken a ramp upscale mall's top floor which they started clearing, going store to store & yelling at people to get out many of whom didn't know which side the men are on' we kept shouting that we were police officers, get up, get up, open the door, we're police officers' it was then that Haji came face to face with one of the attackers, whom he described as " of dark complexion, , he had a black bandanna tied around his head " telling me in Swahili come, come' this whole thing was a joke to him' haji yelled at her to run to them but the woman 39- year- old katherine Walker, said she couldn't because she had three young children with her.