Kenya charges four Somali men with helping Westgate shopping mall attackers

 

A Kenyan court has charged four Somali men with terrorism offences for helping the militants who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall in September.

At least 67 people were killed when Al Shabaab militants raided the Westgate mall, hurling grenades and spraying bullets at shoppers for what they claimed was punishment for Kenya sending troops to Somalia.

"The accused persons carried out a terrorist attack at Westgate shopping mall on September 21 by supporting a terrorist group," the charge sheet read.
The charges include offering support, providing shelter and providing false documents to the gunmen from the Somali Islamist militant group.
The four suspects - identified as Mohammed Ahmed Abdi, Liban Abdullah, Adan Adan and Hussein Hassan - all pleaded not guilty.
The ethnic Somalis, who had no lawyer, were remanded in custody for one week after the prosecution asked for more time for further investigations.
All the gunmen in the Westgate attack - totalling just four, not the dozen that security forces had initially reported - are understood to have died during the four-day siege.

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