Stephanie Burchard, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) outside Washington, was in Nairobi at the time of the Westgate Mall bombing. She wrote a brief commentary titled "
Westgate: The View from Nakuru, Nairobi, and Washington, D.C" on 26 September 2013 for the IDA newsletter. Her bottom line conclusion: The Kenyan people are resilient.
