Abdi Mohamed Ahmed, Liban Abdulle Omar, Adan Mohamed Ibrahim and Hussein
Mustafa Hassan, the four men charged in connection with the Westgate
mall massacre in September, appear at a Kenyan court prior to a hearing
in Nairobi. Those who attacked Kenya’s Westgate mall trained in
Somalia before crossing into Kenya four months before the September
killings in which they also died, a Western official said yesterday.
In Summary
- They also spent time training in a popular gym in the busy district
“The four are believed to have crossed
together by land into Kenya in June” from Somalia, the official who is
familiar with ongoing investigations said
Nairobi. All four gunmen who attacked Kenya’s Westgate mall trained in Somalia before crossing into Kenya four months before the September massacre in which they also died, a Western official said yesterday
“The four are believed to have crossed together by land into Kenya in June” from Somalia, the official who is familiar with ongoing investigations said, adding that the gunmen then based themselves in Nairobi’s largely ethnic-Somali district of Eastleigh. They then spent time training in a popular gym in the busy district, known as ‘Little Mogadishu’, as they prepared for the September 21 operation. The attack saw them storm the crowded Westgate complex, firing from the hip and hurling grenades at shoppers and staff.
“We are confident that there were only four attackers,” the Western official said, dismissing initial reports that over a dozen gunmen may have been involved in the four-day siege in which at least 67 died, and adding that all attackers were believed to have been killed.
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab claimed the attack, saying it was a warning to Kenya to pull its troops out of southern Somalia, where they are fighting the extremists as part of an African Union force.
AT LEAST 20 STILL MISSING The Red Cross say that at least 20 more people are still missing, with Western officials suggesting as many as 94 could have died in total in the attack.
Nairobi. All four gunmen who attacked Kenya’s Westgate mall trained in Somalia before crossing into Kenya four months before the September massacre in which they also died, a Western official said yesterday
“The four are believed to have crossed together by land into Kenya in June” from Somalia, the official who is familiar with ongoing investigations said, adding that the gunmen then based themselves in Nairobi’s largely ethnic-Somali district of Eastleigh. They then spent time training in a popular gym in the busy district, known as ‘Little Mogadishu’, as they prepared for the September 21 operation. The attack saw them storm the crowded Westgate complex, firing from the hip and hurling grenades at shoppers and staff.
“We are confident that there were only four attackers,” the Western official said, dismissing initial reports that over a dozen gunmen may have been involved in the four-day siege in which at least 67 died, and adding that all attackers were believed to have been killed.
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab claimed the attack, saying it was a warning to Kenya to pull its troops out of southern Somalia, where they are fighting the extremists as part of an African Union force.
AT LEAST 20 STILL MISSING The Red Cross say that at least 20 more people are still missing, with Western officials suggesting as many as 94 could have died in total in the attack.
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