Ex Royal Marine with a handgun saved 100 lives as terrorists ran amok

[Zundfolge]

Read the whole story here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430201/British-hero-mall-massacre-Ex-Royal-Marine-handgun-saved-100-lives-terrorists-ran-amok.html)


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A former marine emerged as a hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday after he was credited with saving up to 100 lives.
The ex soldier was having coffee at the Westgate mall when it was attacked by Islamists on Saturday.
The former soldier is said to have returned to the building on a dozen occasions, despite intense gunfire.

A friend in Nairobi said: ‘What he did was so heroic. He was having coffee with friends when it happened.

‘He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside.’

Sources said the soldier was in the Royal Marine and now lives in Kenyan. He cannot be named for security reasons.

The British military regularly train and operate out of Kenya, and have been involved in tracking UK citizens involved with hardline Islamists in Somalia and Yemen.

Former members work with both the UK and Kenyan governments and security firms across East Africa.

[ChadAmberg]

Very few things can make as much a difference in the world than a good man with a gun.

[sellersm]

Very few things can make as much a difference in the world than a good man with a gun.

^Truth.

[spqrzilla]

I thought I read he was SAS?

[Bailey Guns]

Well done.

[muddywings]

I thought I read he was SAS?

If so, 'who dares wins'

big brass....

[10mm-man]

Good job! With that said; " A former Marine". No such thing as an Ex Marine. Sure it's not just a USA marine thing. [Coffee]

[KevDen2005]

I thought I read he was SAS?

I also read that he was SAS

[Zundfolge]

I also read that he was SAS

As per typical of the media, I believe the initial reports got it wrong and they corrected with "oh, sorry, we meant a Marine".

[KevDen2005]

As per typical of the media, I believe the initial reports got it wrong and they corrected with "oh, sorry, we meant a Marine".

Media always has it right, quit ragging on them.

Seriously though, glad this guy was there. Good guys and guns.

[Gman]

Anybody want to hang out in the malls here for Christmas shopping season?

No thanks.

Glad to see someone with some training was able to help out the innocents.

[TFOGGER]

More feel good stuff from the US malls:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/24/kenya-prompts-quick-reaction-from-some-us-malls/


Shopping malls and other soft targets in the United States should increase security measures and update emergency response plans in the aftermath of the Kenyan mall massacre that killed at least 72 people, experts told FoxNews.com.
While overall security at so-called soft targets like sports arenas, hotels, restaurants, movie theaters and housing complexes has increased dramatically in recent years, Saturday’s mass shooting in Nairobi should have an immediate impact among those who safeguard such commercial and residential locations.

I hate malls anyway. Now I have even more reasons to avoid them.

[KestrelBike]

If you think about it, potential terrorists have had a decade+ to squirrel away weapons. They just need the will to act as they've the place (malls) the time (holiday season) and unless they're absolute idiots, the weapons (small arms). Let's hope no idiots go all copy cat or become inspired by this crap in Africa.

[StagLefty]

I was forced into an IKEA visit the other day. That place would be a total nightmare in a Kenyan scenario.

[brutal]

More feel good stuff from the US malls:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/24/kenya-prompts-quick-reaction-from-some-us-malls/


Shopping malls and other soft targets in the United States should increase security measures and update emergency response plans in the aftermath of the Kenyan mall massacre that killed at least 72 people, experts told FoxNews.com.
While overall security at so-called soft targets like sports arenas, hotels, restaurants, movie theaters and housing complexes has increased dramatically in recent years, Saturday’s mass shooting in Nairobi should have an immediate impact among those who safeguard such commercial and residential locations.

I hate malls anyway. Now I have even more reasons to avoid them.

Wait. They'll soon be setting up security and metal detectors at malls and then anyone that wants to go in one will be disarmed, thereby enabling the bad guys.

Or not. Doesn't matter much to me since I won't step foot in any shopping mall.

[Zundfolge]

Honest to God I can't remember the last time I set foot in any shopping mall.

That said, making them into "gun free zones" will end up costing many innocent lives.

Stupid stupid antis.

[Aloha_Shooter]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/25/theft-us-weapons-in-libya-involved-hundreds-guns-sources-say/

The recent theft of massive amounts of highly sensitive U.S. military equipment from Libya is far worse than previously thought, Fox News has learned, with raiders swiping hundreds of weapons that are now in the hands of militia groups aligned with terror organizations and the Muslim Brotherhood.

[BPTactical]

^^Theft?
More than likely they had the keys to the cookie jar handed to them.


I have stayed away from "soft targets" since right after 9/11.

[spqrzilla]

I was forced into an IKEA visit the other day. That place would be a total nightmare in a Kenyan scenario.
I'm sure Bailey would help you out there.

[Rucker61]

I was forced into an IKEA visit the other day. That place would be a total nightmare in a Kenyan scenario.

Talk about channelized OPFOR.