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Al-Shabaab Terrorists Dry Run at Garden City Mall in Kenya Intercepted

by David Goldman
September 8, 2015
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Al-Shabaab Terrorists Dry Run at Garden City Mall in Kenya Intercepted

Kenya bomb experts drawn from the police service at around 4.00-pm (1600hrs) destroyed and IED intercepted from a man aged below 50 years inside a newly opened mall ‘The Garden City Mall’ along Thika Super Highway in the capital Nairobi.

3 Terror suspects are in police custody after mall security officers intercepted one of them during a terrorists dry run at the Garden City Mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

The man who security guards report was behaving suspiciously was found in possession of an improvised explosive device (IED) at the entrance of the mall.

Nairobi’s Kasarani divisional police commander Robin Mboloi said the suspect was frisked during the screening and the IED was found in him.

Terrorists often conduct dry-runs as the final stage of planning a terror attack.

 

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Comments 34

  1. Peter Mwenda says:
    11 years ago

    Keep up our hero’s and delete all those militant

    Reply
  2. Sam Lokua says:
    11 years ago

    To God be the glory

    Reply
  3. Daniel Njoroge Butti Thuo says:
    11 years ago

    Glory be to God

    Reply
  4. Jayme Mac's JayMimz says:
    11 years ago

    We worship the living God….Amen

    Reply
  5. Joe Potter says:
    11 years ago

    I heard about this at about 1822…. You guys are analysts, does this sound like a dry run? After Westgate and Garrisa caught the entire security machinery sleeping? In the capital and a strengthened garrison town (Garrisa) ?

    Reply
  6. Meshack Bingi Makhisa says:
    11 years ago

    meaning of dry run

    Reply
  7. Mundia Wa Mureithi says:
    11 years ago

    What’s a dry run

    Reply
  8. Wilson Mathers Snr says:
    11 years ago

    doubt the credibility of the story…there is nothing like a “dry run” terrorists dnt do drills..let them admit and give credit to the mall security..good thing he was caught but to down play a security breach to a dry run is just to amateurish..

    Reply
    • Bornventure Bucci Gamba says:
      11 years ago

      it might b a litmus test…if u compare th stuff caught in relation to th venue/events at th place..indeed in qualifies a dry run

      Reply
    • Mwalimu Sospeter says:
      11 years ago

      Educate me please, what does a dry run mean?

      Reply
    • Edward Matu Gatheru says:
      11 years ago

      a dry run
      a dry run (British, American & Australian) also a dummy run (British & Australian)
      an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it .We decided to do a dry run at the church the day before the wedding. We’d better have a couple of dummy runs before we do the real thing.
      See also: dry, run

      Reply
    • Michael Njema says:
      11 years ago

      Bro there r usually 8 phases cycle that terrorists use b4 the actual attack. Dry run is the 4th phase in which terrorist test the systems by phisically visiting the target as shall be on D-day.

      Reply
  9. Eng Wycliff Arigah says:
    11 years ago

    Good Lord

    Reply
  10. Eric Lugadiru says:
    11 years ago

    job well done by the guards.

    Reply
  11. Ezekiel Kairichi says:
    11 years ago

    God is good..

    Reply
  12. Methu Kamaru says:
    11 years ago

    Dry Run | Definition of dry run by Merriam-Webster dictionary: a practice event that is done to prepare for the actual event that will happen in the future. Rehearsal. Trial.

    Reply
    • Joe Potter says:
      11 years ago

      True but dry runs are a potential security risk to any eventual “urban-guerrilla” type of operation not to mention the potentially wasteful expenditure of vital resources…..

      Reply
  13. Benson Mathenge says:
    11 years ago

    Good job

    Reply
  14. JF Githinji says:
    11 years ago

    Security guards should b armed

    Reply
  15. Jose Mugurho says:
    11 years ago

    Glory be an to the Lord God

    Reply
  16. Charles Thuranira Ataya says:
    11 years ago

    Dry run it was indeed. Other than the IED, they were not armed. True, they were throwing a pebble into a pond to gauge how deep it is.

    Reply
  17. Yvette Nyambura says:
    11 years ago

    Hmm

    Reply
  18. Strategic Intelligence Service says:
    11 years ago
    Reply
  19. Simon Maina Kariuki says:
    11 years ago

    Glory to God. Congrats the guards. Citizens,lets be vigillant

    Reply
  20. john muthoga wambugu says:
    11 years ago

    The guards are well trained than police, give them the weapons

    Reply
  21. Peter Mashira says:
    11 years ago

    Was the IED a dud or a live one?

    Reply
  22. Harrison Sikuku says:
    11 years ago

    Hongera s/guards

    Reply
  23. Paul Kombo says:
    11 years ago

    That was good security especially the alertness by the guards.

    Reply
  24. Ndiangui Waiganjo Anthony says:
    11 years ago

    Good job to the guards….

    Reply
  25. Steve Lwazi Senzangakhona says:
    11 years ago

    Kudos to the vigilant security guards for being vigilant and pre-empting the terrorist attack

    Reply
  26. Davidson Kashoto Sure says:
    11 years ago

    Dry run? At the target? This’s serious.

    Reply
  27. TAQWA MEDIA says:
    11 years ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m0ymHPdtbI

    Reply
  28. Sotty Ochuka says:
    11 years ago

    who is fooling who? Currently the police are saying,it was afalse alarm #kenya u cant rely on their intelligence?

    Reply
  29. Nicholas Nyamota says:
    11 years ago

    Check out our first line of defence.

    Reply

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