They were apparently hoping to replicate the jihad massacre at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in 2013, in which jihadists murdered 67 people after quizzing their captives and setting free those who could answer questions about Islam.
“Kenyan men arrested with ‘mall IED’ in Nairobi,” BBC, September 8, 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com):
Three men have been arrested at a shopping centre in Kenya’s capital with a suspected explosive device, which has since been detonated in a controlled explosion, police say.
The Garden City Mall, one of the biggest shopping centres in the city, has also been evacuated.
One of the men refused to be searched by security guards and was overpowered in a scuffle, a witness said.
In 2013, al-Shabab gunmen killed 67 shoppers at the city’s Westgate mall.
Police spokesman George Kinoti told the BBC that the three men in custody were all Kenyans and the explosives were discovered in one of their bags.
“The situation is under [the] absolute control of our security agencies and the entire country is under multi-agency surveillance,” he said.
The BBC’s Alastair Leithead in Nairobi says it is believed to have been a small explosive device with a battery and a mobile phone attached, which could have been used as a trigger.
A statement from Garden City Mall quoted the governor of Nairobi Evans Kidero as saying it would reopen on Wednesday morning.
Mr Kidero also thanked the local police and mall employees for their “swift handling and containment of the situation.”
Following the Westgate siege, security was stepped up at Nairobi’s shopping complexes.
Al-Shabab has since launched a number of high-profile attacks, including one in April on a university in the north-eastern town of Garissa in which close to 150 people died.

Angemon says
If Kenya has capital punishment, they should consider it – do they expect that the wannabe jihadis will see the error of their ways during their jail time and become law-abiding, productive members of the society?
Godless says
You want capital punishment not just for those who have murdered but also for those who conspire to unsuccessfully? Do you want that for the U.S. too? Also your comment assumes capital punishment is the only alternative to keeping them off the streets for the rest of their lives, how about deportation or life imprisonment?
Angemon has spoken in the past as if deporting all Muslims is a crazy idea but one of his alternatives is to execute people who have not murdered anyone.
Angemon says
Hi Godless. I see you’re still acting as voeg’s battle-hound – or purse Chihuahua, at least judging by your debating skills.
Let’s parse your nonsense, shall we?
“You want capital punishment not just for those who have murdered but also for those who conspire to unsuccessfully?”
Now this is a broad conclusion to arrive when all I said was that capital punishment wouldn’t be wasted on these jihadi wannabe – they’ve clearly threw whatever allegiance and loyalties to Kenya as a nation they might have had and replaced it with an allegiance with al-Shabab, or whatever terrorist group they happen to belong to, so it would be fair to judge them for treason, which often carries a death penalty. Hence what I said: if (see, conditional) Kenya has capital punishment it won’t be lost on these three losers. As you can see, it’s quite different from the nonsense you tried to ascribe me – that I wanted the death penalty for anyone who conspired to commit murder.
“Do you want that for the U.S. too?”
A loaded question, since it’s based on a false assertion, as I explained above.
“Also your comment assumes capital punishment is the only alternative to keeping them off the streets for the rest of their lives”
It doesn’t.
“how about deportation”
Really? Where would the Kenyan government deport Kenyan citizens to? Kenya? The US? What country is obliged to take in Kenyan citizens if the Kenyan government decides to “deport” them? These are questions neither voeg or you, as his mouthpiece, will, or can, answer, even though you’d face them if you had your way and could implement your “total deportation” “solution”.
“or life imprisonment? ”
Again, a question based on a false assumption.
“Angemon has spoken in the past as if deporting all Muslims is a crazy idea”
Rubbish. Absolute rubbish, and the kind of lies and misrepresentation that could only come from islamic apologists or voeg and his mouthpiece. Either link to a post where I said I opposed deporting all muslims because it was a “crazy idea” or retract your words and apologize. I never argued against deporting muslims, but I do know where deportation ends – as I mentioned above with the Kenyan example, a state can’t deport its own citizens, which is something that you lot fail to comprehend, despite being remembered of that over and over.
Where do you suggest the US deport American citizens to? Under which laws, both national and international? What if the country you want to deport them to refuses to accept them under the grounds they’re not obliged to take in foreign citizens? I suspect I’ll have no answer from you on that, because it exposes the baseness of your “argument”.
“but one of his alternatives is to execute people who have not murdered anyone.”
Again, this is the kind of misrepresentation that’s usual from voeg and his mouthpiece. What I said, and several times so there is no margin for doubt, is that muslims from any given nation who pledge their allegiance to any islamic terror group should be considered as traitors and judged as such – and treason often carries the death penalty. That is quite different from saying “he wants to kill people who have not murdered anyone”, like you did. In fact, look up a list of people who were executed for treason and tell me how many of them killed anyone – the death penalty can, and has, been applied regardless of the murdering record of those executed, so you get no traction based on that argument as well.
Godless says
Angemon I know you changed your text on this post where before you had said you supported deportation Wilder’s style. You tried to cheat not to look stupid but I still make you look stupid anyway.
Angemon says
Godless posted:
“Angemon I know you changed your text on this post where before you had said you supported deportation Wilder’s style.”
What a poor, pathetic, desperate excuse for a human being you are, Godless. You pile up lie after lie after lie and hope no one picks on them. You went out of your way to lie about me and ascribe me falsehoods and, when asked to back your lies, you lied again. There’s no way I changed my text because we’re not allowed to edit posts. It’s simply not possible. Admins may have that option, at least for editing articles, but us, regular users? What we say, right or wrong, is final. Hence why users – and you see this a lot with voegelinian, your puppetmaster – reply to their own posts to correct typos. They can’t edit their posts to correct typos so they reply to their posts and say something along the lines of “where it says X it should say Y”.
You are a liar and a complete joke. Exactly what one would expect from voeg’s parrot.
“You tried to cheat not to look stupid but I still make you look stupid anyway.”
There’s someone looking mighty stupid, all right. If you want to know who, go look in a mirror. Oh, and if you really think that throwing lies and turds in my direction makes me look stupid, you’re a bigger fool than I thought- and I already thought of you as a substantial fool.
Godless says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnii0QTtLE
Jay Boo says
Godless, voeg used the pronoun “she” in referring to you but in the recent video with voeg your voice sounds a lot like a teenage boy voice.
Are you pulling a fast one on us all.
Champ says
Oh great, voeg and Godless have turned Jihad Watch into a circus act with their stupid videos. Robert PLEASE remove them asap!
Champ says
Godless wrote:
“Angemon I know you changed your text on this post where before you had said you supported deportation Wilder’s style.”
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You “know” no such thing, since this is impossible to accomplish on this forum. No one has the ability to edit/change their text once it’s posted. This comment served a valuable purpose, though, in making me laugh! 😀
Incek Mahallesi says
Hi Voegy!
I see you’ve become desperate again and have dredged up your sock puppet, since you’ve had no luck speaking for “yourself”.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
You’re a very bad boy, Voegy. Back to the basement and your Doritos.
Mazo says
You’ve never been to Kenya. Why are you talking jack about this country which you know nothing about.
Why are you people talking about countries you’ve never stepped foot in?
Angemon says
Mazo posted:
“You’ve never been to Kenya.”
Huh, even if that were the case, so what?
“Why are you talking jack about this country which you know nothing about.”
Exactly what did I said that was wrong? Or are you just upset because I said your coreligionists should be judged for treason?
“Why are you people talking about countries you’ve never stepped foot in?”
Why do you and your coreligionists – including the morons discussed on this article – pray in a language they do not know? I’ve never been to the moon but I can tell you its gravity is lower than Earth’s. I’ve never been to Jupiter but I can tell you that its rings are composed of. I’ve never been to med school but I can tell you that having sex with a virgin doesn’t cure AIDS.
Your whole notion that we aren’t allowed to talk about such and such countries because we’ve allegedly never set foot in them is just a pathetic attempt at misdirection.
Go ahead – point out what I said regarding Kenya that is factually false.
mortimer says
Because Europeans don’t believe Islam is evil, they will soon find the ‘refugees’ (hegira-ists) will be terrorizing the Europeans more and more.
The eventual result of chaos will require the complete banning of Islam and requirement to leave Europe or leave Islam.
Jay Boo says
Teachable moment
It was a very nice thing that Kenya did by accepting so many Somali Muslim refugees into their country.
We should all applaud their compassion.
Hip Hip Hoo-ray
They really have set an example for us all to learn from.