Garissa University Attack: How Female Students Were Tricked By Al Shabaab Terrorists

Female students were tricked by al Shabaab militants in a rather wicked and brutal way, according to one eye witness who saw the whole horror play out right in front of his eyes.

When the shooting started female students hurriedly took refuge in their women's hall, under bed and in cupboards. One of the terrorists shouted out to them to come out from hiding if they wanted to live.

"Or you can call you fathers to save you," they taunted.

He quickly added that according to their Islam religion they were not allowed to harm women. And so it was perfectly safe for them to come out of hiding. This was quite believable because during the Mpeketoni attack by al Shabaab only men were targeted while women and children were spared.

The female students all crowded into their women's hall at Garissa University also believed it and emerged from hiding. Many of them came down the stairs to where the militants were waiting. Some of them were scantily dressed. The brutal terrorists waited patiently until they were all gathered together and then opened fire spraying bullets several times into the crowd and killing a vast majority of the innocent female students.

This is one of the reasons why the majority of the dead students were female.

It seems that the militants have different rules for different attacks because during the Westgate siege they killed women and children some of whom were Muslims.

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After a recent post in this blog, things have happened very fast. The heroic Recce company now has transportation that will get them to emergencies much quicker. We are not talking about one BUT two helicopters.

This is what I said in an earlier post;

Many have criticized the fact that they (Recce) arrived by road when many other less critical government officials had been flown in and arrived hours earlier. It is clear that the government now needs to work on Recce transportation to emergencies. A state of the art helicopter would be ideal. Or at the very least something close.

The decision to have the two coppers stationed at the elite security unit's base in Ruiru was made on Saturday in a meeting at State House that was attended by security chiefs and the President.

Apparently the crack unit was ready and waiting as early as moments after the attack started and were waiting for further orders even as the terrorists rained terror on defenseless students.

All in all although the police had been alerted of the attack as early as 6am, it took them almost 12 hours to finally contain the situation which only happen less than 15 minutes after the Recce boys arrived in Garissa. Read more details about this story.


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Garissa University Attack: Kenyan Lawyer Was One Of The Terrorists

Brutal Kenyan lawyer/terrorist who may have used his university background to easily scout Garissa campus. How does a budding brilliant lawyer with such a bright future beckoning get radicalized?

End of the road for Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi. Many of those who knew him recognized him immediately from this photo

Kenyans are numb with shock at the revelation that one of the ruthless Garissa University al Shabaab attackers was a Kenyan lawyer. And it gets worse, his father is a government chief in Mandera.

The name of the terrorist lawyer is Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi, who was the son of Abdullahi Daqare, the current chief of Bulla Jamhuri location in Mandera County. Abdullahi graduated in 2013.

The shocking news has helped fit a few more pieces into the Garissa University jigsaw puzzle. For instance eyewitnesses repeatedly said that the attackers seemed to know the university very intimately. For instance when the attack started they went straight to the hall where the University Christian Union members were praying and massacred everybody there for early morning prayers and worship.

Those familiar with the culture at universities in Kenya will tell you that entering any university as an outsider to scout around is not easy. Students are always quick to notice “aliens” and can sometimes get pretty hostile. Which would mean that for a typical Somali radical from Somalia it would have been extremely difficult to scout the camps in readiness for the attack. An interesting aside here is that in the oppressive Moi days intelligence officers found it so difficult to nose around at the University of Nairobi that they ultimately ended up planting full time “students” and using informers but even these were quickly identified by students.

However for Abdirahim, a former University of Nairobi student, it would have been a piece of cake walking into Garissa University and getting all the information he needed. The end result was that the militants knew exactly what to do and where to attack for maximum casualties.

 

There were also some armed administration policemen on campus who had been placed there a week before the attack after intelligence reports revealed that an attack on a major university establishment was imminent. A harmless former university student who was a budding brilliant lawyer would have had no problem at all getting to know their exact location and patrol patterns.

The sad story of Mohammed Abdirahim Abdullahi is instructive to all Kenyans that even an innocent face can be a ruthlessly brutal terrorist capable of killing innocent young students in cold blood. The terrorists not only lined up and shot the students, there were also bodies that had missing heads.

Nicknamed Ababmo by his classmates at the Law Faculty in Nairobi’s Parklands Campus, he is said to have been a sharp dresser, tending to favour tailored suits and loved to shoot pool with his friends. He had a room on campus but he rarely stayed there, preferring to operate out of Eastleigh, where he was said to run a business selling cooking gas. Eastleigh is very close to Parklands.

Abdirahim went missing from his Mandera home about a year ago and it became common knowledge that he had joined the Somali militant group al Shabaab. Others suspected he may have travelled to Syria to join the dreaded ISIS terror group.


His twits reveal a regular student using regular language common amongst his peers like in one twit he said; “So how does this sh*t work?? Nt even a clue! A rather apt description of the young lawyer turned terrorist wouldn't you say.

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Why Crack Unit Ended Garissa University Siege In Less Than 15 Minutes

The crack GSU Recce company arrive at a recent scene of trouble. The easiest way to identify them is from the pistol holsters they wear on their thighs.

When the whole Garissa University attack story is told, it will not be complete without a mention of the crack unit that arrived very late but managed to end the siege in less than 15 minutes flat.

We have to be careful here not to tell the enemy too much so you will excuse me if I am economical with all the facts I always dig out that you guys come to this blog looking for.

I am of course talking about the GSU Recce company. Firstly it is interesting that the GSU has always been one of the best trained security units in the country. Few Kenyans know this because they have always had the perfect carmoflouge, everybody knows that the GSU specialize in dealing with riots, hence the nick name fanya fujo uone (cause trouble and suffer the consequences). Few know that the unit was really founded as an elite Presidential protection unit capable of protecting the tenant of State house even from an assault by soldiers in the event of a coup.

Several sources on the ground say that  before Recce arrived the terrorists had managed to contain and keep at bay all the security forces on the scene trying to flash them out, including the army. One of the reasons for this is because the al Shabaab militia had taken position on the roof of the building and had at least one crack shot sniper. The small group of Recce officers arrived and everything changed.

There is a side to this story that may never be told for security reasons. However a retired security expert talking to this blogger pointed out the fact that one of the dead terrorists' photograph shows a deep wound at the back of the head. Which would suggest that one of the recce snipers may have quickly found a place high enough to take a shot that hit the back of that al Shabaab militant's head. These are the kind of tactics that would have caused the siege to end so quickly after the crack unit arrived.

Hardly surprising because unlike anybody on the scene the Recce unit are highly and specially training to deal with situations just like the Garissa one. Many have criticized the fact that they arrived by road when many other less critical government officials had been flown in and arrived hours earlier. It is clear that the government now needs to work on Recce transportation to emergencies. A state of the art helicopter would be ideal. Or at the very least something close.

The GSU Recce Company is made up of elite soldiers who are highly trained within Kenya and abroad in highly regarded military training facilities in countries such as United Kingdom, America and Israel. The Recce company is a specially trained unit of commandos which can be said to be in the same league as the British SAS, America's Delta Force, France's EPIGN and the Israel's Sayaret Matkal.

The main crucial function of GSU's Recce Unit is to provide support to the other field companies of the General Service Unit. Apart from reinforcing the other companies of the GSU, it is also sent to perform security operations that require the highest level of attention. This battle hardened force is also capable of being deployed in the event of war. 

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Details continue to emerge about exactly how al Shabaab terrorists massacred innocent defenseless students at Garissa University in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The first explosion at the main entrance which is believed to have been a grenade had the predictable response of students rushing out of buildings to see what was happening and hopefully get to safety. The gunmen positioned themselves strategically outside the entrances and mowed down dozens of students who came running out.

But the merciless terrorists were even more devious than that. They shouted out to students that if they came out of hiding they would live but if they remained hidden in the building they would surely die. Many believed them and ventured out only to die in a hail of bullets.

Other eyewitnesses recounted how the terrorists asked their victims to lie face down in a long continuous line and then shot them one by one at the back of the head. This is something that has also been reported from numerous earlier attacks. The militants also taunted the students and answered cell phones from anxious relatives shouting into them "we are killing them now." Read more details in this Daily Nation report.

As usual the terrorists separated Muslims from Christians and promptly killed the latter. There has been a spirited and consistent effort from al Shabaab to trigger animosity between Christians and Muslims in the country and recreate the Nigerian situation here. Mercifully they have failed miserably in this.

According to some eye witnesses there were more than 5 attackers with some claiming that they counted 7. Interestingly one of the militants seems to have been an expert sniper and shot at several advancing KDF soldiers thus slowing down the rescue effort considerably.

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Garissa Attack And The Man Of The Moment, Joseph Nkaissery

If there is somebody who has fitted into their job the way a glove would fit to a hand then it has to be one Joseph Nkaissery (pictured), Interior Cabinet Secretary. Watching him field questions during the Garissa terrorist siege was reassuring for many Kenyans. You could see calm control and confidence.

It is said that when things go right and you decide to write about it, it makes for boring journalism. Folks prefer bad news and constant criticism. They make for much better headlines.

Watching Nkaissery operate under pressure it becomes very clear what the Jubilee government was missing in this docket. A link between the security arm of government and the political side. Big shoes that can only be fitted by somebody whom the military top brass can respect. The current CS is just one such person being "senior" to all the top soldiers currently serving.

Nkaissery was previously in the Kenya Defence Forces, rising to the rank of major-general in the Kenya Army. He also served as a commandant of the Armed Forces Training College. He retired in December 2002 after 29 years of military service. Interestingly it was during his tenure as Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Defence under Kibaki that Kenya Defence Forces invaded Somalia and the 2011 Operation Linda Nchi  launched.

Recent security decisions made by the cabinet secretary have been spot on. Sections of the press have tried to pin the Garissa University incident to his office claiming that not enough was done to act on intelligence reports that indicated the campus could be attacked. That is a very naïve way of analyzing things. Dozens of intelligence reports are received and it is impossible to act on all of them. However to Nkaissery's credit he responded to this one by arranging for armed Administration policemen to guard the university around the clock. This was in place in the week leading to the attack. This move had an impact, albeit a small one because the terrorist met resistance right from the entrance and mercifully one of the APs survived and is currently hospitalized at Kenyatta National Hospital.

If there is anybody who has a fighting chance of sorting out insecurity then that man has to be Nkaissery. Keep up the good work waziri.

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Garissa University Attack: The Inside Story

I have lived in Garissa. To be honest it is the kind of place where you cannot help but wonder if you are really still in Kenya. Even though you have to cross a famous Kenyan river, the Tana River, shortly before entering the town. The terrain is really close to what you would imagine a desert looks like.

Still it is the largest and most developed town in the semi arid North eastern province of the country.

A dark cloud hangs over the town this Easter holiday after 5 al Shabaab masked gunmen stormed Garissa University a few hours ago. The government says that four of them were killed by KDF soldiers and the fifth arrested as he was trying to flee the scene in the midst of all the chaos.

Before the incident few Kenyans knew that such a university existed in the country. Garissa University is actually an affiliate of Moi University in Eldoret.

In retrospect it was an ideal target for the terror group consisting of so many non-Somalia students from different parts of the country. It had a total population of over 800 students. In the past attacks in Garissa and most of the former northern frontier district have attracted little interest from the rest of the country. This one was different because of the extremely high death toll (147) and the fact that institutions of higher learning have always been considered a very unlikely target for terror attacks.

And yet this should not have been the case. For months intelligence reports have singled out some Night Clubs and generally places where drunkenness and  immorality go down as possible targets for terror attacks. These are vices that are deeply frowned upon by the terror group who view themselves as religious zealots. Now what do you expect in a campus anywhere in the world? Immorality and drunkenness is a way of life.

And to make matters worse Garissa is only about 90 Kms from the Somalia border and the porous borders mean that folks from that war-torn country frequently criss cross between the two countries coming and going. It would have been difficult not to notice the student presence and mostly "unacceptable to al Shabaab" activities in town, even for a visitor.

The inevitable criticisms against the nation's security organs are bound to emerge but experts agree that this time round the response was pretty fast. Impressive really. No doubt this was helped by the military barracks not too far from Garissa town and the fact that security top dogs in the country have been doing a lot of useful work in the area to ensure that Kenyans are protected as much as possible. Eyewitnesses say that they saw soldiers on the scene only minutes after that attack started. This undoubtedly saved plenty of lives.

KDF did an excellent job in ending the siege even as the militants held hostage non-Muslims in one of the buildings the most likely objective being to use them as human shields to slow down attacks. And also despite the terrorists cleverly positioning snipers at the top of the building to take out anybody who tried to approach it.

New Kenyan Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery (a former soldier turned-politician-turned-interior-cabinet-secretary) emerged as the kind of figure who inspires confidence even after such a horrible attack. He was quite convincing talking to the press about the situation on the ground and how it was being handled. No doubt a far cry from the former cabinet secretary (who was really a hospitality-industry-professional-turned-interior-cabinet-secretary).

The local media mostly left out the gory details. Like the fact that some eyewitnesses say that they saw bodies without heads meaning that some victims were beheaded, a common gruesome practice of the terrorists.

Why is it that Kenya has suffered the most from terror attacks, even long before KDF went into Somalia? After all there are a number of other countries that have sent troops to Somalia including Ethiopia and Uganda who have not suffered to the extent Kenyans have. Now that is a mystery that may have something to do with the fact that most Somalis, have relatives on both sides of the border.

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Is Kenya Serious About Fighting Corruption This Time Round?

Flashback to January 2003. President Mwai Kibaki, the very first popularly elected president in the history of Kenya repeated again and again that his new government would have zero tolerance for corruption.

Kenyans read with glee a story in the authoritative Eastafrican which said that various parastatal heads who had arrived at State house Nairobi with briefcases filled with cash had been turned away by the head of state who wondered what all the cash was for. "So this is what you used to do with Moi?"

The new dawn in the banana republic quickly spread amongst the public and a daily newspaper reported about a case where a traffic policeman asking a matatu driver for a bribe was "arrested" by wananchi and frog-matched to the police station.

It looked like the country had finally confronted the big bad wolf called corruption which had suffocated it for decades without mercy.

But then suddenly strange things began to happen in government and the Kibaki administration started looking extremely vulnerable and shaky. To cut a long story short it was corruption and going back to old habits that finally stabilized the Kibaki administration.

The terrible truth is that Kenya runs on corruption. In fact the view of a vast majority of experienced politicians is that corruption is the lesser evil because without it we would all have to contend with instability. Mwai Kibaki's intentions were good but he made the mistake of failing to find a strong alternative or "crutch" for the country to lean on for stability.

And so the question now has to be has President Uhuru Kenyatta found that alternative "crutch"? And if so what is it? What will oil the volatile political wheels in the country as dozens of public officers "step aside" to be investigated over corruption allegations?

Most analysts insist that nothing has changed and nothing will change. All we are witnessing is a massive PR exercise to clean up the image of the government. They point to the fact that we now even have tight timelines for the "stepping aside" circus which is 60 days. These analysts predict that at the end of the 60 days the said individuals will be found "clean" and will promptly return to their plum jobs and corrupt ways. There may be of course one or two scape goats who will carry the sins of all others.

Indeed who says that those charged with the investigations cannot be bribed to find their subjects "safi kama pamba" (clean as white cotton wool)?

This is Kenya my friend.


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In a dramatic new development the Imenti Central MP Gideon Mwiti (pictured) was arrested yesterday and locked up at Kileleshwa police station where he spent the night. This is in connection to the claim that has dominated the media over the last week or so about how he allegedly raped a woman in his office shortly after subjecting her to an HIV test.

 

It is expected that Mwiti will be taken to court this morning and formally charged with the rape.

 

It is claimed that the legislator raped a 29-year-old married woman on March 21, in his office in Westlands, Nairobi.

What this means is that prosecutors must have compelling enough evidence to take such a powerful politician to court. This could include DNA samples whose results the police seem to have been waiting for before making the decision to arrest and charge the legislator.

 

Police also took statements from more than 10 people in connection to this case. The latest witness to be questioned is a security officer who works at Pizza Garden, Westlands one of the places that the MP is said to have gone with the woman on the night of the incident.

 

Mwiti has taken a low profile in recent days and could not even be reached by the media. This is in sharp contrast to earlier days when he confidently talked to the press even as he gave conflicting accounts of what exactly happened on the fateful night of March 21st 2015.

 

 

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