A car believed to be connected to the terrorists was yesterday revealed to be packed with explosives in boxes.
A silver saloon Mitsubishi parked at the entrance of the mall also had petrol poured inside it.
Investigators claim it is “a miracle” it never exploded.
Bungling
Kenyan investigators had previously dismissed the car for nearly a week
until it was pointed out as potentially significant by foreign
detectives.
Inside the car were several sim cards, grenade pins,
bullets, rifles and shredded paper believed to be plans of the building
and operation.
A source close the investigation said: “What the
investigators now believe is that the terrorists wanted to explode the
car when terrified shoppers starting to run for their lives.
“Once
people started the stampeded the terrorists wanted to detonate the bomb
started so it could have had maximum effect by slaughtering hundreds
more people.
“For some reason the bomb did not go off. The results
could have been utterly catastrophic if it has successfully detonated.
We could have been easily been dealing with more than 1,000 deaths. The
modus operandi of these animals is completely barbaric.”
Sources have indicated the tactics employed by the attackers could only be equalled to those used by “Al-Qaeda terror squads”.
The
source added: “It is by sheer luck or a miracle that the attackers were
committed to being inside the mall when they realised the bomb had
failed. There are no winners in this carnage, but it looks like it could
have been even worse which is impossible to believe.”
The Sunday
Mirror can reveal Kenyan security services were warned more than a year
ago of an attack in the capital city on the exact date of the Westgate
siege.
Leaked documents have emerged suggesting the National
Intelligence Service had “credible evidence” last September concerning a
“Mumbai style attack” on high profile targets including the Westgate
shopping mall.
The 20 page dossier details terrorist plots and
activities including a direct warning of a “terror plot in Nairobi
between September 13 and 21, 2013”.
The Westgate terror siege was executed on Saturday, September 21.
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