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by Monica Davis
The terrorist attack on the Kenyan mall was not a haphazard affair. A new report claims the terrorists had trained for weeks, and had a detailed plan, as well as a hidden cache of weapons, located around the mall..
The Somalia-based militants who stormed a Kenyan mall had a detailed plan and had hidden weapons at the scene beforehand, according to US officials cited by the New York Times today.
According to the report, a hand-picked group of English-speaking fighters from the Shebab, an Islamist rebel group, had trained for the assault in Somalia for weeks beforehand.
On Saturday the group burst into the upscale Westgate mall in Nairobi armed with grenades and assault rifles and set about killing staff and shoppers. MOREHERE