Thursday January 17, 2019 - New details have emerged about the member of the British Special Forces who engaged the five Al Shabaab insurgents that had raided Dusit D2 Hotel and Office Complex on Tuesday afternoon.
The SAS soldier was in Kenya to train Kenya Special Forces but was called in to help when the Al Shabaab militants struck the hotel complex.
“He was training Kenyan forces when the shout went up, so he went in,” said one of his friends.
After getting kitted out, the SAS hero, clutching a Colt Canada C8 assault rifle with a suppressor silencer, single handedly entered the hotel complex and rescued over 34 Kenyans.
His battle gear included a balaclava, body armour, a para claw, a Glock pistol and a stainless steel dagger.
According to sources at the UK Embassy, the man is a long serving member of the British Special Forces and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a top counter-terror warfare expert.
“This guy got there quick. I think he was one of the first there. He had a mask on.”
“We could see him talking to the police and army and they listened to him. They were looking at pieces of paper, maybe plans of the building,” one survivor identified as Bruce Kariuki told a local daily.
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