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Police reveal how Al Shabaab men planned, executed Westgate attack

NAIROBI: The Al-Shabaab militant Adan Dheq alias Garaar who was killed in a US drone attack in Bardhere, Somalia last week was in Nairobi in September 2013 to plan the Westgate Mall attack.

A profile released by police and National Intelligence Service show Gaarar, a Somali national, was the one who bought a Mitsubishi salon car registration number KAS 575X that was seized in front of the mall after the attack.

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