Terror at the Mall

This was a really good HBO documentary about a single terrorist attack in Kenya. I'd followed the story at the time but this captured the suspense and the horror of the unfolding situation in a truly remarkable way. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

Having lived in Kenya for nearly 7 years as a child this nation has always felt like a second home to me.

Watching this documentary I was in tears. Tears mixed with anger, horror, shock and repulsion for those who carried out this cowardly and disgusting act. An act supposedly carried out in the name of religion .... hence my want and belief to have NO part in religion whatsoever. Any person who dresses up such actions as these in the name of religion does not warrant any place on this earth at all in my book.

Praise indeed to the people who tell their story of survival and the people behind piecing the footage together. The resultant viewing is.... well beyond words, and even this review to me can never reflect the disgust for parts of the human race. How? Why? Why hurt, kill and subject people to such horrors?

Well done to the makers. Thank you for telling a story which needed to be told.

For those who survived; I cannot imagine your thoughts, the terror and sense of hopelessness when facing such a display of brutality. I only hope you lives now are peaceful, full of love and you're able to live as good a life as you possibly can after this.

Why was nothing said about Obi Wan Nairobi? The most likely reason is the British govt's gag order on Christian Craighead preventing him from releasing any of the details of what he did in Nairobi. - no reason for the Ministry of Defence's court case that gagged Craighead from writing a book other than the fact that he acted outside of his official capacity which could be seen as an embarrassment for UKSF. Which is ridiculous as the SAS motto is literally who dares wins, safe to say going into an active terror attack alone and saving hundreds of lives constitutes daring. If you're interested in him, Christian has an episode on the Shawn Ryan show where he talks about his life story and his time in the military - unfortunately, he still inst allowed to say anything about what happened in the hotel but he does talk about what he was doing beforehand along with some of his now declassified missions that are very interesting to say the least. 10/10 would recommend giving it a watch if you're even remotely interested in SF operators.

Top documentary! But found the the Kenyan response frustrating and as I would imagine an unskilled force to be. At no point during the documentary was there any mention of an outside help like the off duty British Special Forces soldier that entered the mall and retrieved several hostages? Despite the CCTV footage being brilliantly strung together and documented it seemed the local forces and police responded in quite a poor and untrained Manor.

After watching this I feel like it took 3 hours. It is so intense that the body feels like it's been through a marathon. One of the most horrific things I have ever seen...