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For 19 hours, the lobby of the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi was transformed on Tuesday by intelligence sources calling it "an active command and control center."
On the upper floors were six armed terrorists who had entered the scene shortly after 3 pm and more than 700 workers trapped in offices located inside the complex.
If things went wrong, agreed the planners of the rescue mission, the balance sheet would be unthinkable.
At 2 pm on Wednesday, when the seat was declared lifted, the senior officers looked tired and sleepy.
A new sequence of CCTV shows that a kamikaze blew up his explosive vest at 5:35 pm sharp, after being held for a minute on the sidewalk next to the Secret Garden restaurant.
Seconds earlier, the man was seen walking briskly before stopping, his back turned to the restaurant.
Two employees exceed it while the restaurant's customers are too busy with their lunch or laptop to notice it.
A few seconds after the explosion, there is noise and gunfire that forces people to return to the building.
Rescue mission sources recounted the intricate details of the rescue mission that saved more than 700 people Nation.
"When the shooting began, people inside thought it was a bank robbery," said a senior intelligence officer.
Shortly afterwards, the Director of Criminal Investigations, George Kinoti, arrived at 14 Riverside Drive, along with the Flying Squad's Crime Prevention Unit and Crime Prevention Teams. The reconnaissance squad had been put on hold.
"It was after opening the abandoned vehicle near the barrier of arms raised that they discovered that the attack was targeting terrorists," said our source.
Inside the vehicle, there was a phone and documentation on terrorism. A few meters away, a grenade had exploded, deflating the tire of a parked Toyota Yaris.
"At this point, the reconnaissance squad has been activated," says our informant.
The squad is a paramilitary unit based in Ruiru and composed of elite soldiers, which are the equivalent of Kenya to the British SAS, the American Delta Force or the Sayaret Matkal of Israel.
At that time, the terrorist killed eight people in the restaurant, most of whom had been injured after detonating his explosive vest.
The arrival of the reconnaissance squad around 4 pm changed the matrix by entering the complex where the terrorists were. GSU commander Douglas Kanja was coordinating efforts with an intelligence team on the operations of the NIS counterterrorism unit.
The SSG air cavalry unit had brought some members of the reconnaissance squad.
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