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Ray Kelly: New York Is Prepared For A Nairobi-Style Mall Attack -- The Daily Beast
N.Y.C. Police Chief Ray Kelly says Kenyan officials didn’t handle last month’s terror attack correctly—and revealed what he’s doing to protect American targets.
Last month’s siege of an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi is very much on the mind of New York’s outgoing police commissioner, Ray Kelly.
On Friday, New York’s top law-enforcement official will host a special training session for senior managers—known as a tabletop exercise—to prepare for what would happen if a small team of active shooters seized a large shopping area in New York City as terrorists from al Qaeda’s Somalia affiliate did last month at the Westgate mall outside Nairobi.
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My Comment: No one can ever be prepared for a "Nairobi-style" mall attack .... the only hope is how will law enforcement respond .... and the golden rule is the "faster the better".