Terrorists are terrorists so we cannot ask why they do evil; its their job to do evil and be evil. The question always is how they were allowed to do evil, and how, in this instance, no one protected the mall in Nairobi, and how they managed to get in and how no one came to the rescue until scores were dead.
Nairobi has been under the microscope of every active intelligence service in the Middle East and Africa. ‘Al-Shabbab’ terrorist ‘Enterprise’ is well known to ‘all’ so again innocent people pay a price for a systematic and questionable failure of those that are supposed to know, predict and protect.
Somali pirates have been active in the high seas of the Horn of Africa attacking and seizing tourist ships and blackmailing for ransoms. Somalia or as I prefer to call it ‘Terroristica’ has been a ‘testing grounds’ for a fusion of intelligence services and terrorists, as if both are in a training camp together. In 1998 the US emabssy in Nairobi was bombed and hundreds got killed, couple of years later, the attacks of 09/11/2001 on the US itself occurred. Terror has had a predictable path in the past twenty years, terrorist organizations have been well know and their leaders and individuals and tactics were documented but still no real action has been taken to eliminate them.
The story has been the same all along, a postmortem analysis and procedures, but nothing before terror strikes or criminals act. But to narrow it to the event at hand, the attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi today, 09/21/2013, we notice that the attack could have easily been prevented if the owners of the mall had their security in place in such a volatile piece of land, if the government of Kenya whose president is wanted before the International criminal Court, had security and checks in place. The attack was so easy, was so predictable that it could happen and it happened and yet everyone is in shock that it happened. The shock that it happened should be directed at those who allowed it to happen.
AP Photo for patrons of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi fleeing the crime scene on 09/21/2013.
Nairobi has been under the microscope of every active intelligence service in the Middle East and Africa. ‘Al-Shabbab’ terrorist ‘Enterprise’ is well known to ‘all’ so again innocent people pay a price for a systematic and questionable failure of those that are supposed to know, predict and protect.
Somali pirates have been active in the high seas of the Horn of Africa attacking and seizing tourist ships and blackmailing for ransoms. Somalia or as I prefer to call it ‘Terroristica’ has been a ‘testing grounds’ for a fusion of intelligence services and terrorists, as if both are in a training camp together. In 1998 the US emabssy in Nairobi was bombed and hundreds got killed, couple of years later, the attacks of 09/11/2001 on the US itself occurred. Terror has had a predictable path in the past twenty years, terrorist organizations have been well know and their leaders and individuals and tactics were documented but still no real action has been taken to eliminate them.
The story has been the same all along, a postmortem analysis and procedures, but nothing before terror strikes or criminals act. But to narrow it to the event at hand, the attack on Westgate Mall in Nairobi today, 09/21/2013, we notice that the attack could have easily been prevented if the owners of the mall had their security in place in such a volatile piece of land, if the government of Kenya whose president is wanted before the International criminal Court, had security and checks in place. The attack was so easy, was so predictable that it could happen and it happened and yet everyone is in shock that it happened. The shock that it happened should be directed at those who allowed it to happen.
AP Photo for patrons of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi fleeing the crime scene on 09/21/2013.
