Kenyan massacre: It took the soldiers 7 hours to respond...

According to reports, the school had protested about the university insecurity last November. They believe that the school authority did not take the university’s security problem seriously enough. It was located in a town long known for violent extremist attacks thus the campus of mainly Christian students was an obvious target in a predominantly Muslim area within striking distance of Somalia, 90 miles away. Students said they felt unsafe and exposed, knowing the university was vulnerable to attack.
Garissa University College was inaugurated in 2011. Almost nobody wanted to be there because of security problems but they were declined spots in the mother campus, Moi University in Eldoret. So many of the students wanted a transfer but they could not get it. An eye witness said that the gunmen's first target when they arrived was an early morning Christian meeting.Out of the 29 present for the meeting, only 7 of them survived.
We were praying,” said Duncan Obwamu, 25. “We were in a circle in the room holding hands.” First, the barrel of a gun appeared at the door. Then it fired, striking a young woman leading prayers. A Shabab gunman stepped into the room and continued firing.
“He didn’t say anything, but you could see from the look on his face he was very happy,” he said. Obwamu, hit in the arm and shoulder, covered in the blood of other students, lay still as the gunman kicked the bodies to be sure they were dead. “I heard him laugh as he communicated with the others outside. He was very happy about what he’d done.”

The attack started around 5.30am but the Kenyan special forces took at least seven hours to respond to the brutal massacre at a university where nearly 150 people were killed by Islamist militants, according to reports.Some journalists based in Nairobi who drove to Garissa after hearing the first reports of the attack arrived before the special forces, who came by air.
Government representatives have defended the long response time, comparing fighting terrorism with being a goalkeeper as 'they only remember the one you missed'.
Terrorists killed 148 students in the massacre.
Culled:LA Times/Daily mail

*When people fail to see the handwriting on the wall. Why must things go bad before we do anything? Are lives worth nothing in this part of the world that it should take so much time for elite troops to respond? Hah! Only God knows. My heart goes out to the family of the victims.