Kenyan inteeplligence agency warned at least one person to stay away from Westgate Ma

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Kenya’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS), widely accused by politicians of failing to pick up chatter about the attack, has insisted it did warn the police and officials inside the President’s office before the Westgate siege, but its warnings went unheeded, The Star reported.

According to the same report, a pregnant policewoman avoided Westgate after her brother, who works for Kenyan intelligence, warned her of a terror attack. “She has told police that her brother who is a NIS officer warned her not to visit Westgate that Saturday because she would not be able to run,” a senior officer was quoted as saying.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...y-were-killed-says-police-doctor-8842509.html


Sorry for the typo in the thread title.

 

[hjmick]

What makes this political?

 

[Montecresto]

What makes this political?

There have been similar reports associated with other attacks that seem to indicate there are those that want to allow such attacks for political gain. You don't think there's a political angle to a NIS officer warning his sister not to visit Westgate Mall. I'm sure all those that suffered and their surviving family members would have enjoyed the same specific warning.

 

[Montecresto]

NIS knew the Westgate Mall was going to be attacked by terrorists and that draws no comment!!!!

 

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And why Shabab’s implicit threats to the United States? The United States backed the Kenyan invasion of Somalia, has a large CIA station in Kenya, and has ramped up cooperation with the Kenyan military, especially in counterterrorism operations. Even before the Kenyan mall attack, there have been media reports on Somali-Americans going to Somalia to fight with Shabab. If these reports are correct, such fighters might get into the United States and launch retaliatory terrorist strikes here in response to US intervention, as did Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula of Yemen (allied with Shabab and responsible for the underwear bombing attempts) and the Pakistani Taliban (responsible for the attempted Times Square bombing).

No one can excuse terrorist attacks on innocent civilians – whether in Kenya, Uganda, or in the United States catastrophically on 9/11 – but the citizens of these target countries have been put at risk by their own governments. Their governments have meddled in the affairs of other nations.

Americans have been especially oblivious to their government’s rampant and needless intervention into the affairs of other countries and the fact that it causes heinous blowback terrorism – not only against American facilities, businesses, and people overseas but right here at home. After 9/11, Americans understandably wanted revenge but were blinded to what actually caused the attacks – and most Islamist terrorist attacks. Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Pakistani Taliban, Shabab, and other Islamist terrorist groups have all been motivated to retaliate against what they perceive as foreign meddling – especially non-Islamic intervention – in their homelands.