The first possibility that occurred to me immediately was that this was a kidnapping setup to erase the Iranian hostage fiasco by the kenyan quickly and brilliantly negotiating the release of the Ambassador. That was helped by hearing that the Amb. was dead when the mozzies got to him, possibly from smoke inhalation or such so it didn’t come off right. As more information drizzled in(too much for “seep”) it looked more and more lìke the gun running thing is abetter guess. Both maybe? Not impossible.
“The first possibility that occurred to me immediately was that this was a kidnapping setup to erase the Iranian hostage fiasco by the kenyan quickly...]
This is plausible as I’m sure the Kenyan would expect that the few Americans there would not be likely to fight back against an armed mob.
His first mistake.