Originally Posted by
double_barrel
How do they avoid a blue-on-blue in these circumstances? The Kenyan response was vastly better than in the Westgate catastrophe when the army shot the police response unit and then went on a looting and drinking spree leaving the bad guys bored and frustrated on the top floor. But it was still a very random disorganised response. So I cannot imagine that there was any awareness of the presence of foreign SF guys by the local responders.
Back in Nairobi and catching-up on the gossip. It is clear there were indeed blue-on-blue's in this incident too. Our hero gathered a group of Kenyans with him as he went in - I am sure a large part of that was simply to reduce the chance of being shot by friendlies. He must have felt incredibly vulnerable with his rather haphazard dress and a random bunch of trigger-happy locals all around, I suspect the bad guys were the least of his concerns.