Nigel Brennan

So I had no need for your gun.

I don't want your gun.

Please take it.

And he said, brother, come with me.

Come with me and I'll ensure you're safe.

And I said, brother, there is an imam who is coming.

who is going to interview us and he's going to understand that we are in fact Muslim, that we have converted to Islam and we've been told that if that is the case then he will ensure our safety.

And he basically said, okay, if that's what you wish and sort of turned around and walked back through the crowd and disappeared.

I could see between people's legs and then I could just see masked gunmen starting to run in from the sides of the mosque and it was just like...

I don't recognize any of those people.

And it was just like, this is going to end in a complete bloodbath.

People are going to get killed today because of us.

And it was weird that the crowd sort of enveloped us again and sort of sheltered us.

And it was like they were fearful, but they were trying to protect us.

I don't know.

That's what it felt like to me.

So, you know, by this stage you had Jamal and Abdullah who were sort of standing sentry at the pulpit to try and,

protect their prize.

The entrance that we had obviously come through on the side of the building, I then hear Ahmed and Captain Yaya and a few of the other sort of head people, you know, AK-47s in the air, pistols in the air, screaming, yelling as they push their way sort of through and around the crowd and make their way into the

the pulpit and behind us.