Intelligence Agencies Clearly Behind the Westgate Mall Attack

Update (9/28/2013): 

The Guardian:

Kenyan authorities had intelligence pointing to an attack in Nairobi a day before the Westgate mall attack. According to counter-terrorism documents, the government and military were warned that al-Shabaab was planning an attack on the capital where it would storm a building and hold hostages. 

There are also reports that Kenyan intelligence agents were at Westgate a few hours before the crowded shopping centre was struck by heavily armed terrorists last Saturday, in a four-day siege that left at least 67 people dead.

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I've posted about how the woman seen directing the attacks was born into a military family and first became involved in Islamic radicalism while studying religion at school known to be a cover for MI6 training. I've also posted about how there was an armed SAS agent in the mall at the time of the attacks. It recently emerged that one of the lead attackers had served in the Kenyan Special Forces and was likely trained by the British military.

It is known that the SAS was on scene, alongside Israeli troops and, of course, Kenyan forces. Kenyan troops are trained by the British and the Israelis. It is acknowledged that Israeli, British and American security forces have served in an advisory role during the siege, with the first two participating in the actual response. It is also now acknowledged that the FBI is in Kenya to "assist" the investigation. On September 18, they "began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis" to determine the identities of the victims and the attackers. The FBI director, James B. Comey, was from 2005 to 2010 an executive of Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest defense contractors and a corporation that would gain incredibly from escalation in Somalia. Lockheed appears to have been involved in the 9/11 attacks.

Indeed, it would appear that the international subsidiaries of the Cryptocracy, all of them (with the exception of Israel) NATO countries, are all converging on Kenya to influence the probe.

The Guardian:

"We have moved to the next phase," interior minister Joseph ole Lenku told a news conference. 

He said that alongside US, British and Israeli agencies, Kenya was also receiving help from Germany, Canada and the police agency Interpol in the investigation.

It now appears that the Americans had a covert role in the armed response to the attack. Bendita Malakia, a graduate of Harvard University and a lawyer for the World Bank, reported "armed security men who she believed were from the United States" rescued her and fifteen others who had been hiding in one of the mall's stores for more than five hours, despite the fact that the Americans had no official involvement in the response. This report would place them there on the first day of the assault.

The Daily Mail:

Indeed, on the second day of the four day siege in Nairobi which claimed the lives of at least 67 people and injured over 200, there were reports from French press agency AFP that Israeli security forces were actively aiding Kenyan forces. 

And as the attack carried on to its final conclusion, British MI6 agents were also reported to be providing assistance to their Kenyan counterparts. 

However, it is not known who the 'American security team' who came to Malakia's rescue were working for or what capacity they were operating under. 

Kenyan officials have acknowledged that Israeli and American security personnel have taken part in planning the operation to retake the complex and provided logistical support according to the UK's Independent newspaper.

As I reported on September 23, the mall is in the same neighbourhood as the headquarters of the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID), a known cover for CIA operations and personnel. Kenya is a center for the activities of the Mossad, CIA and MI6 in the region. This would have made it an ideal location to stage a horrendous provocation, given the immediate control they would have over the scene. Both the SAS and the Mossad have been caught in failed attempts to engineer terrorist bombings

The British government has long used the specter of al-Shabaab and other terror groups in order to justify their increasingly repressive surveillance state. However, around a quarter of its foreign fighters are British. One of its main financiers and top bomb-making tutors, Samantha Lewthwaite (who allegedly commanded the attack), is by all appearances an MI6 asset. Another alleged commander of the attack was a soldier in the Kenyan Special Forces who was likely trained by the British military. The leader of Moktar Ali Zubeyr, a veteran of the Afghan resistance, is the leader of the group. In the nineties, he became a member of the Al-Itihad al Islamiya (AIAI), an Islamic militant group that was largely comprised of Somalis who had participated in the resistance to the Soviets in Afghanistan. Of course, al-Qaeda was also largely comprised of Arabs who had fought for this cause. The resistance fighters were being supported, trained and supervised by the CIA, MI6, and SAS. The Mossad was also involved in this project.

Michael Adebolajo, the man who beheaded soldier Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich and who had contact with MI5, had been arrested in 2010 by Kenyan authorities. He and others were planning to travel to Somalia where they would be trained at an al-Shabaab camp. Adebolajo's younger brother Jeremiah was an MI6 asset who was paid thousands of pounds for his espionage activities in the Middle East.

In other words, the group accused of carrying out this "terrorist attack" is under the control of MI6. At the same time, Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko has claimed that he furnished two witnesses to the police who had been living with al-Shabaab in the Westlands and had learned that they were planning to attack a number of targets in Nairobi, including the Westgate Mall.

Two officers of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the central intelligence organ of Kenya, admitted to a Kenyan newspaper that their agency had prior knowledge of the attacks:

Two NIS officers who did not want their identities revealed yesterday told the Star that their organisation had given advance warning of the attack to Inspector General of Police Service David Kimaiyo and Criminal Investigations Department director Ndegwa Muhoro. 

They sensationally claimed that Kimaiyo and Muhoro should be investigated for failing to act on intelligence briefs given to them. 

They also claimed that some senior officers within the Office of the President should be investigated for “suppressing” intelligence reports. 

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It has also emerged that a policewoman has recorded a statement after her brother who works for the NIS warned her not to visit Westgate on Saturday because of an impending attack. The NIS officer is being sought for interrogation. 

The pregnant policewoman regularly went window shopping in Westgate on Saturdays.
"She has told police that her brother who is a NIS officer warned her not to visit Westgate that Saturday because she would not be able to run with her bulging tummy," a senior officer involved in the investigation said yesterday.

Given this foreknowledge, it is especially suspect that an undercover anti-terrorism agent with the Kenyan security services was inside the mall at the time. Abdul Haji, the son of a former security minister, rushed into the mall when he heard that his older brother was trapped inside. He admitted to NTV that his brother was an anti-terrorism agent who had been working undercover until the attacks. I wonder if he was having coffee with that armed SAS agent. Curiously, the woman rescued by the mysterious American security team and the little girl rescued by Haji were both from North Carolina. Al-Shabaab planned the attacks using the names of Masonic lodges in Charlotte, North Carolina as codes to refer to their targets.

Kim Sengupta, defense correspondent for the Independent, wrote on September 26, 2013:

It is highly unlikely that the bulky versions of GPMGs (General Purpose Machine-Guns) IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) launchers could have been carried into the shopping mall by the terrorists who had initially gained entry pretending to be tourists even if some of them were, as the authorities claimed, men enveloped in niqabs.

It is almost certain that these had been secreted beforehand, say security sources. It is also likely that quite extensive reconnaissance had been carried out beforehand and that the attackers had detailed knowledge of the vast complex including floor plans. One line of inquiry being pursued by the Kenyan police is that they rented retail premises for their arms, which could also have given them access to the paperwork.

With the Kenyan security services clearly aware that the mall was the target of an impending attack, these MI6 assets were allowed to wheel their entire arsenal into the mall without any interference. There are even allegations in the Kenyan press that in reality none of the terrorists were killed during the assault and that they escaped through a vast underground sewerage tunnel that connects to a neighbouring mall as their escape route. For this scenario to be even remotely possible would require complicity of the Kenyan, American, British and Israeli forces at the scene. It would also mean that the team that committed the assault had an extraordinarily intricate knowledge of the mall. It would also mean that the security forces of Kenya, the United States, Britain and Israel are all involved in a cover-up as to who exactly died in the mall.

The very countries from where the accused attackers came provided the funding, training, arms and supervision to the group of Somalis in Afghanistan that would become al-Shabaab. The ally of these countries (Israel) that participated in the fostering of the Somalis in Afghanistan also owned the mall and would have therefore be in a perfect position to facilitate the secret transport of explosives and arms into the building. This country, along with another (Britain) were training the Kenyan troops. Now they are all converging on Kenya with their allies to "investigate" the Gladio operation that they organized.

SAS at the Westgate Mall

Yesterday, the Telegraph reported the presence of an "off-duty" member of the Special Air Service (SAS), the special forces of Great Britain, in Westgate Mall from the beginning of the attack and was carrying a gun.

Allegedly simply there to have coffee, is identity remains secret "for security reasons." When the militants stormed in, he became the center of the rescue effort:

The man, who is said to be from Britain’s Special Forces but cannot be identified for security reasons, had been drinking a coffee at the Westgate mall in Nairobi when militants stormed it on Saturday

He reportedly went back and forth between the building and the outside world around 12 times, helping people escape from the complex.

One picture showed him helping two women out, a gun tucked into his waistband.

The article continues and reveals that the SAS later became a part of the response to the attack:

On-duty Special Air Service soldiers were also at the scene last night, helping the Kenyan authorities in their final attempt to free the hostages.

The SAS appears to be very deeply involved in terrorism. Both the Sri Lankan Army and the Tamil Tigers, who fought from 1976 until the latter was defeated in 2009, were trained by an SAS front. Kroll Services, one of the major contractors providing security to the World Trade Center, has close ties to the MI6 and SAS, and reportedly were involved in their covert operations in Africa. These were aimed at destabilizing opposition to apartheid through Gladio-style terrorism similar to what happened in Nairobi only two days ago. The SAS were also caught dressing as Muslims and attempting to engineer terrorist bombings in Iraq.

Six months prior to this, 3,000 British troops had arrived in Kenya for military training. The Israelis also had a close relationship with Kenya and owned the mall. They then participated in the siege alongside the SAS. Barak Ravid of Haaretz called Kenya "Israel's forward base in Africa," and wrote:

Kenya has also been a customer of Israel Military Industries. Israel sold Kenya a considerable amount of weaponry, but beyond that, Israel has provided military know-how. Hundreds of Kenyan soldiers in recent years have received training in combating terrorism in Israel or were trained in Kenya by official or semi-official Israeli instructors.

Thee Israelis at the scene probably therefore had a lot of influence on the response during the siege. Furthermore, the owners of the mall were Israeli and Frank Lowy, who was one of the two businessmen who leased the World Trade Center for 99 years six weeks before the attacks, is according to rumour a director on the board of the company that owns Westgate Mall. I have yet to see firm evidence of this, however. Lowy is an Israeli intelligence asset and a friend of Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul behind News Corporation (the second-largest - and until 2011, the largest - media outlet in the world). A notorious propagandist whose organization was recently revealed to have bribed police in England and tapped phones, Murdoch received an honorary knighthood by the Vatican in 1996 for his financial contributions to the church. Murdoch formed News Corporation six years after his afternoon tabloid moved into the United States in 1973. This was only a year after Murdoch, whose longtime business partner was connected with Nugan Hand Bank (a major CIA money laundry), had began a close relationship with Ted Shackley, the chief of the CIA station in Australia.

Given that the Americans, the British and the Israelis all had a strong shadow presence in Kenya at this time, and the fact that they share with it the aim of escalation in Somalia, does it not stand to reason that they would engineer an attack in an area where they all had considerable control? 

Given the evidence that a British intelligence asset was commanding the attack, the "coincidental" presence of an armed, off-duty SAS agent, allegedly simply there for a coffee, is very interesting. MI6 is very active in Kenya and SAS was involved in the response. How much of this was a British operation?

Is it also simply coincidental that Tyler Hicks, a professional photojournalist for the New York Times, "happened to be close to the scene"?

Al Shabaab Denies "White Widow" Participated in the Assault

Update (9/26/13): At Kenya's request, Interpol has issued a worldwide notice for Lewthwaite's arrest "on charges of being in possession of explosives and conspiracy to commit a felony dating back to December 2011."

"We have an adequate number of young men who are fully committed and we do not employ our sisters in such military operations," announced al-Shabaab on Twitter in a categorical denial of reports that a British woman participated in the assault on Westgate Mall.

Al-Shabaab is attempting to cover up the involvement of a British intelligence asset in the attack on Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi. Their categorical denial contradicts multiple witnesses and is likely aimed at obscuring their now-obvious connections with MI6. 

Samantha Lewthwaite, the daughter of a British army officer, converted to Islam in her teenage years and met Germaine Lindsay, later one of four men framed for committing the 7/7 bombings, on an Islamic chatroom (patsy pond). At the time, she was studying religion at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), a training ground of MI5 and MI6 that receives large donations from the Saudi royal family. She "dropped out" - a move one might expect from an operative receiving some kind of training - and married Lindsay the same year.

The Guardian:

A Kenyan newspaper, The Star, said survivors recalled a woman giving orders as the attackers stormed the shopping centre. 

It said two employees of the Radio Africa Group told the newspaper that "a woman appeared to be giving orders." They added: "One said her face was covered but she had a woman's arms and body. She was not carrying a gun but had a large bag around her waist."

The witnesses said she gave instructions in English which would be translated into Swahili as the attackers took hold of the shopping centre.

The paper quoted a witness as saying: "The woman was not armed but as soon as she issued orders, the men would go on a killing rampage."

Another witness said: "It was definitely a woman because we could tell it from the voice." 

The paper said security officials who have viewed CCTV footage of the attack agree there is a light skinned or even Caucasian person among the attackers. But some officials believe it is a woman with a pony tail while others believe that is being confused for a bandana.

Today, a nine-year old girl whose brother was among the dead has come forward with her account of seeing a white woman among the attackers.

The Telegraph:

A schoolgirl who saw her nine-year-old brother shot dead by terrorists in Nairobi has told her teachers she saw a white woman among the attackers.

Though some witnesses only saw her give orders, one woman claims that a female attacker fitting Lewthwaite's description fired repeatedly at her with a machine gun. A senior anti-terrorism officer in Kenya said that many witnesses had described one of the attackers being a woman resembling her.

In addition to all of this, the body of a British woman was discovered at the scene. Rumors are circulating that this was Lewthwaite. 

So why is al-Shabaab categorically denying that any women were involved in the attack? The group is in all likelihood a group of mercenaries working for U.S. and British intelligence services. If she was killed in the assault, they may fear the exposure of their intelligence connections. This would likely result in them immediately disappearing from the media and probably having their funding severed as a result. They would also have to fear elimination, for these agencies do not like leaving loose ends. 

Perhaps they are stalling confirmation of her participation in the assault because the global cryptocracy has not yet decided whether to opt for the media impact of using a British woman as the new face of Islamic terror or to write her out of the script in order to ensure that emphasis is not diverted from the Somalian identity of the group, a crucial part of the geopolitical agenda behind this event.

In any case, the accounts of various witnesses provide a compelling case that a British woman, likely Samantha Lewthwaite, was on scene and commanding the operation. The importance this is not absorbed, however, if it is not recognized that her involvement in Islamic radicalism began not long after her mysterious leave from a school recognized as a training ground for MI5 and MI6. To put it simply, she was, like every other terrorist leader, an intelligence asset.