Dusit attack was planned on Facebook, probe shows

 

The terrorist attack on the DusitD2 Complex in Nairobi was planned on social media, investigators have told the Star. A probe into the January 15, 2019 incident shows the attackers opened a Facebook account and used it in their planning to the last day of the raid.

In the account, they exchanged ideas on the best weapons to use and how to use them in executing the mission. The account ran for almost six months undetected until and after the attack. Detectives from the Anti-Terror Police Unit stumbled on the account as they sieved through gadgets recovered from the house of one of the suspects involved in the attack. They have since confirmed the terrorists had avoided using mobile phones in their communication and shifted to Facebook to coordinate the mission.