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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Grace, you are spot on! No wonder the bible says the kingdom of
God is for those who are like children…adults with their many ideas coming up
after the crisis!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Jane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+info=amwik.org@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Grace
Githaiga<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> info@amwik.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Incompetence gallore--Offer solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I
agree with Yawe! Let us not loose the opportunity to suggest solutions
because this may not be the last time that we are seeing this sort of senseless
attack. </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>People,
we will exhaust ourselves with blame! Can we for once imagine the difficulty of
the circumstances in which our security were working? Do we for example
have an idea of the countless such raids that have either been foiled or
minimized? I remember there was an alert that shopping malls would be attacked.
Was this like two years ago? People, let us remember that even in the
highly secured cctv'd and over-resourced US, gunmen still walk into nursery
schools and cinema halls and randomly shoot everyone.</span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Seriously, how is one expected to
predict the actions of mad men and a woman? And like a friend of mine has asked
me “who would have known that a four year old boy calling a gunman "a bad
man" in his face would halt his shooting, produce please of forgiveness
from the gunmen, free passage for the boy, sister and mother and even more, the
departing gift of Mars bars for the kids from the gunman?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>As
we heap tons and tons of blame, let us remember that just as a
doctor losses a patient/botches up a surgery or an editor runs with a graphic
lead photo thinking he is telling the "real" story rather than
repulsing his readers - there will always be unfortunate lapses, errors of
judgement and plain blunders even in a security intelligence job. What
solutions are we offering? We need to move from 'if only' to solutions of
preparedness. </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Solutions,
solutions and more solutions! </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Grace</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:
dmbuvi@gmail.com<br>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:18:08 -0700<br>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Incompetence gallore<br>
CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>
To: ggithaiga@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>A
Standard article explains how disorderly and dangerous the operation was,
Kenyans troops killed each other, and endangered the lives of hostages in a
haphazard operation. <br>
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The familiar shoot to kill order was given out <a href="http://t.co/M5tJ67KcPk"
target="_blank">http://t.co/M5tJ67KcPk</a><br>
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Sent from my Windows Phone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robert yawe</a></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sent:
</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>25/09/2013
08:29</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>To:
</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com">Dennis Kioko Mbuvi</a></span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><br>
</span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Cc:
</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a
href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</a></span><span
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</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>[kictanet]
Incompetence gallore</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'>Editorial
from a Saudi Paper <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class=ecxusercontent><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>Something wrong in Kenya </span></span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>There can be no denying the extraordinary challenges
facing the Kenyan government. Yet as the last terrorists were being rooted out
of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall at the end of a slaughter spree that has
killed some 70 people and injured hundreds more, the Kenyan authorities need to
be asking themselves some hard questions.</span><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>This is a country which because it is actively
involved in combating Al-Shabab terrorists in Somalia is supposed to be on the
very highest state of alert. Kenya did not choose this confrontation. In 1998
it was an amiably corrupt and easygoing country with merely a nasty record of
armed robberies, mostly of rich Western tourists.</span><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>Then Al-Qaeda launched one of its very first
international attacks, a deadly assault on the US embassy in the Kenyan capital
which left 224 people dead the great majority of them Kenyans. Thereafter,
there was a succession of small attacks by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab which
culminated in raids on Kenyan coastal tourist resorts and a Somali refugee
camp, targeting and kidnapping foreigners.</span><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>It was the final straw. Nairobi sent troops into
Somali striking Al-Shabab fighters in the rear as they were pressed from the
north by African Union forces. Thereafter, the terrorists resorted to low-level
violence, mostly hit and run grenade attacks across the Somali border, until
the attack by some 15 heavily armed men on the supposedly well-guarded
up-market Westgate shopping center. The attackers managed to negotiate their
way with all their weaponry through the capital’s roadblocks. They contrived to
organize their deadly assault without the Kenyan intelligence services picking
up the slightest inkling of what was about to happen.</span><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>Something has got to be wrong somewhere. And the
closer one looks at the way the tragic events unfolded, the more difficult
questions it seems that the Kenyan authorities have to answer. Why for instance
did it take almost half an hour for the first properly armed and equipped teams
to arrive at the shopping mall? Why was there no proper building evacuation
scheme nor any obvious plan to respond to a terrorist outrage within the
complex?</span><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>Acts of bravery by shopping center staff, individual
police officers and ordinary members of the public cannot mask what appears to
have been a series of bungles by all those who should have been responsible for
the safety of the complex and its visitors. Journalists noted that when
heavily-armed special forces arrived, some seemed nervous and confused, perhaps
as a result of the shouting that could be heard from senior officers who
themselves seemed poorly briefed and unprepared and as a result unsure of how
best to proceed. The inevitable report into this horrific event may find that
by delaying a rapid and firm response to the attack, the authorities permitted
the terrorists to continue their killing spree and also allowed them to
consolidate their position within the mall.</span><br>
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<span class=ecxusercontent>Perhaps a clue to what went so disastrously wrong at
the Westgate mall can be found in the devastating fire at Nairobi’s Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport last month. Though the blaze broke out in the
early morning, meaning no one was killed, the extent of the fire and the
extraordinary delays in getting fire appliances to the scene raised major
questions about the competence of the Kenyan authorities. The Westgate tragedy
must compound these serious concerns.</span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h5>
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