grolut wrote:ecstacy wrote:This narration largely ties with the account I gave here after the whole sad affair. The only new thing is more CCTV footage of the victims and their narrations.
Recce's role has been in my view downplayed here if you look at the time gaps.
KDF infantry decisions and acts of looting remain the biggest embarrassment to the state in this Westgate incident.
Gen Karangi is (being) retired next year. Gichangi has since gone and Kimemia demoted. The head of the Kenyan Military intelligence credited with top success in infiltrating Al Shabaab has since been made NIS boss. Al Shabaab top leadership wiped out and their remaining bases attacked by AMISOM. The bill to hand NIS more powers to arrest is being mooted and about to be discussed in the legislature..
From the documentary Recce actually seemed quite professional (though very late to enter) compared to KDF. In fact if KDF had not entered maybe they would've killed/captured the terrorists without destroying the mall.
The documentary avoided touching much on the official security teams responses... hence leaving out much of what RECCE did.
If you go through photos/stories from last year, you will notice that RECCE went in much earlier and there are some photos of RECCE squad ushering people from the Cinema halls down the stairs.
The actions of Haji and Co actually helped corner the terrorists at Nakumatt, who later went up to the storage area. Recce had by then began a floor by floor sweep of the area, pinning their location to the Nakumatt storage area.... where KDF started coming in sijui, but they came in after RECCE and messed it up.
There were even Israeilis and Americans on ready but when KDF brought Kichwa, they just left....
Brings me to some speculation McReggea had insinuated earlier. Did some people take advantage of the sieke to ensure the boss avoided some international obligations? bearing in mind immediate family would have been affected... and a relation did actually end up dead?
Could Ole Lenku have known all was done by Saturday night and just agreed to act a fool, giving us sensational statements of mattresses and outrageous numbers of terrorists?