DPP Noordin Haji has been a senior spy, a negotiator for an independent Jubaland and a target of al Shabaab terrorists. And on September 21, 2013, while he was shopping at Westgate Mall, al Shabaab terrorists launched an attack, the second most deadly after its bombings in East Africa in 1998. It said I had been receiving death threats, presumably from al Shabaab," Haji told the Star. Haji was tasked to chair the joint team that would set up a buffer between areas controlled by al Shabaab and Kenya. After he was rescued from Westgate, Haji, naturally shaken by the attack, took time before plunging back into work at NIS.

Source: The Star December 21, 2018 04:41 UTC