Omar Nabhan
{{Infobox criminal
| name = Omar Nabhan
| weapons = AK-47 rifle, grenades, suicide belt
| locations = Westgate shopping mall, Nairobi, Kenya
| birth_date = 1998
| birth_place =
| death_date = 21 September 2013 (aged 14–15)
| death_place = Westgate shopping mall, Nairobi, Kenya
| body_discovered = 24 September 2013
| organization = {{Flagdeco|Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant}} Al-Shabaab
| known_for = Westgate shopping mall attack
| fatalities = * 62 direct
- 1 indirect
| injuries = * 161 direct
- 2 indirect
| motive = Islamic terrorism
| image = Omar Habhan Westgate attack.webp
| caption = Nabhan, as seen inside of the mall during the shooting. A victim can be seen laying on the floor to his left
}}
{{Short description|Member of al-Shabaab (1998–2013)}}
Yahya Ahmed Osman{{Cite web |last=Center |first=Combating Terrorism |date=2013-10-24 |title=The Nairobi Attack and Al-Shabab's Media Strategy |url=https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-nairobi-attack-and-al-shababs-media-strategy/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Combating Terrorism Center at West Point |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=McConnell |first=Tristan |date=2024-10-07 |title='Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead' |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/20/nairobi-kenya-westgate-mall-attack-al-shabab/?utm_content=bufferec123&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}} (1998–21 September 2013), also known by his nom de guerre Omar Nabhan, was a Somali mass murderer and al-Shabaab militant who was one of four perpetrators of the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack that killed 67 people and injured a further 173. He was killed during the attack.
Life
He was born in 1998. Another militant stated that Nabhan trained and graduated from an Al-Shabaab training camp in the town of Balad in 2009.{{Cite web |date=2013-10-22 |title=Sources: Somali Westgate Attacker Trained with Al-Shabab |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/sources-say-somali-westgate-attacker-trained-with-al-shabab/1774705.html |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-07-02 |title=Westgate killers: The face of terror |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/news/westgate-killers-the-face-of-terror-1026128 |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=Nation |language=en}}{{cite web |last=McConnell |first=Tristan |date=20 September 2015 |title='Close Your Eyes and Pretend to Be Dead' What really happened two years ago in the bloody attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall. |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/20/nairobi-kenya-westgate-mall-attack-al-shabab/}}
Attack
{{Main|Westgate shopping mall attack}}On 21 September 2013, Nabhan and three other heavily armed men drove to the front entrance of the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.{{cite news |author1=Daniel, Douglass K. |date=21 September 2013 |title=39 people killed in Kenya mall attack claimed by Somali militants; hostages still held |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/gunmen-use-grenades-open-fire-at-nairobis-most-upscale-mall/2013/09/21/a9403b3a-22a8-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story_1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922155502/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/gunmen-use-grenades-open-fire-at-nairobis-most-upscale-mall/2013/09/21/a9403b3a-22a8-11e3-ad1a-1a919f2ed890_story_1.html |archive-date=22 September 2013 |access-date=21 September 2013 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=2 |agency=Associated Press}} The four men split into pairs, and Nabhan went with Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow into the mall, where they immediately began to shoot at shoppers in their vicinity. Dhuhulow entered a restaurant where three died, while Nabhan entered a children's shoe store adjacent to it. He fired six bullets into a man, killing him. He fired at victims near Barclays Bank before joining Dhuhulow in the Nakumatt supermarket, where Nabhan and others were captured on CCTV shooting at civilians. The men, including Nabhan, stayed in the supermarket for the rest of the shooting.{{cite news |author1=Petrecca, Laura |author2=Bhatti, Jabeen (Associated Press) |date=21 September 2013 |title=39 die in Kenya mall siege; hostages still held |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/21/witness-kenya-mall-attackers-target-non-muslims/2846319/ |newspaper=USA Today}} All four men were later killed.{{cite news |author=Jason Straziuso |date=13 December 2013 |title=NYPD report on Kenya attack isn't US gov't view |url=https://news.yahoo.com/nypd-report-kenya-attack-isn-39-t-us-151711825.html |access-date=18 March 2014 |publisher=Associated Press, Yahoo News}}
See also
- Omar Mateen, an American mass murderer