Kenya: Before al-Shabab armed the Westgate shopping centre stormed, receive the Kenyan Minister of Government warnings of a possible attack, say reports.
Leaked intelligence of briefings detailed plans for attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa, according to Kenyan media.
Four Ministers of the Cabinet and the head of the Kenyan armed forces were informed are.
At least 67 people have been killed after al-Shabab stormed the Mall on September 21.
Briefings were given the Minister "informed they raise about the threat of terrorism and plans for simultaneous attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa September 13 and 20, 2013?, Kenya's daily nation to combat terrorism reports as saying cited.
The warnings were made first in January, according to the newspaper, and then again by the beginning of September.
Dossier A dossier from the national intelligence service - amounting to more than 8,000 pages after Kenya standard - newspaper proposes also to that which issued Israeli warnings that building, which could be used to owned by its citizens between 4 and 28 September.
Westgate is owned partly by the Israeli. The daily nation reported that Kenyan intelligence had established that al-Shabab earlier this year had started guide singling out Westgate and the Holy Family Basilica for attack. Figures the Government allegedly received the intelligence briefings as well as Finance Minister Julius red, Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku, Foreign Affairs Minister Amina Mohammed, Minister of defence Raychelle Omamo Kenya of Defence Forces Chief Julius Karangi.
The head of the national intelligence service, Michael Gichangi, of Kenyan MPs to be questioned on Monday. An unnamed senior intelligence told the news agency AFP, which had the Government in its approach to the briefings, casual to get official.
"It is impossible that one can say that it started no intelligence on this attack because these reports from late last year trickles down." And they were specific targets including the West Gate."
The head of the parliamentary Defense Committee, establishing ' u Gethenji, told the BBC on Friday, that "people need to know the exact, that possibly this event may take place lapses in the security system".
He also said that they needed, "the anatomy of the entire bailout" understand amidst allegations of confusion about who was responsible.
Funerals for some of those who died in the four-day-long siege continued, after three days of official mourning on Friday to end.
The official death toll is 67, but the Kenyan Red Cross has 61 people are still missing.
The British Foreign Office meanwhile confirmed that one-sixth of British citizen now is known that have died during the siege.
Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamist group, said that it carried out the attack on the upscale Mall in retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia.
Security sources said the BBC that the militants engaged a business there in the weeks before the siege.
This gave them access to service lifts at the West Gate to stock weapons and ammunition. With pre-positioned weapons, they could quickly reactivation and repelling of the security forces.
The BBC has carried out further information how to delete their attack with two vehicles the Islamist extremists outside before she forced their way in the Mall, according to sources.
You are also believed to be a base, which have established with a duct as a hiding place on the first floor.
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