A Norwegian citizen suspected to have helped plan and carry out the terror attack in Nairobi’s Westgate mall as been named as Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow.
Four men have been arrested in counter-terrorism raids across London by Scotland Yard in a joint operation with with MI5.
The Westgate mall terror attack will have provided a boost in publicity and probably a brief uptick in foreign recruits and jihadi financing for al-Shabab, but it does not improve al-Shabaab’s long-term military situation in Somalia nor does it win the support of significant numbers of Somalis, who just want an end to conflict.
There’s still no credible evidence that the NSA’s massive digital surveillance has disrupted any terrorist plots.
The Kenyan military has published the names of four men suspected to have been involved in the Westgate mall terror attack in Nairobi on 21st September where 67 people were killed.