Friday, October 04, 2013

Kenya:Armed Citizens Rescue Terror Victims

The elites can always get permits to have and carry weapons.  At least this son of a former Kenyan defence minister has courage.

Businessman Abdul Haji and a small group of plain-clothes policemen helped to rescue dozens of people from the Westgate mall. He had gone in search of his brother, armed only with a pistol that his father - a former Kenyan defence minister - had taught him to hunt with as a child. He tells the BBC of his experiences:

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 We had left some armed people on the top floor to cover us, and we did the same on the first floor. When we got to the ground, there were just five of us - three plain-clothes police and a gentleman who I established was a civilian.

 More Here at the BBC

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