Skottlossning/terrordåd i Nairobi, Kenya

There were only four of them and it appears very likely they escaped alive.
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So the New York City Police Department sent two detectives to Nairobi when the three-day siege at the Westgate Mall was still going on. And while the text of the report issued today is based on publicly available information, including two detailed Kenyan television documentaries compiled from the mall’s closed circuit television footage, the detectives were able to corroborate and cross-check vital information.
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An unexploded grenade was found at the scene afterward. If it had gone off, still more would have died.

But the shooters did not have many such explosives. There were no improvised devices set up as booby traps to kill first responders, as there had been when terrorists attacked hotels in Mumbai in 2008. In Nairobi “they were traveling light,” says the author of the NYPD report. Their main weapons were their Kalashnikov-style rifles, and it appears they never fired them on full automatic like a machine gun. They took one or two or three shots at a time. They conserved their ammunition. They probably carried only about 320 rounds altogether.

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Now the slaughter really began in earnest. The terrorists had no interest in taking hostages. Their purpose was to kill as many people as possible, although in some cases they asked their victims if they were Muslims, and could name the mother of the Prophet Mohammed. Some of those who knew the name, Aminah, were allowed to go free.