Weekend Edition September 27-29, 2013
What Really Happened at Westgate » CounterPunch:
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/27/what-really-happened-at-westgate
by ANDRE VLTCHEK , Nairobi
And how is it possible that it took several days for the entire army and police to defeat a small band of insurgents, and even after that, only after foreign forces got involved?
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By the latest count, around 130 people lost their lives, but the real number could still be much higher.
Rumors are there, still. Interpol issued arrest warrants and the hunt for the ‘White Widow’ is just beginning. And that despite the fact that one body, of a white woman, an insurgent, has already been found.
More bodies are being pulled from the rubble. Some people working inside the compound said that they could not exclude the possibility that several insurgents are still hiding in the rubble of the Mall.
But the most important question now is what will happen to war-torn Somalia. And what will happen to over two million Somalis (exact numbers are constantly being disputed) who are living in refugee camps like Dadaab, behind barbed wire, as well as in depressing neighborhoods around the Kenyan capital and other cities.