Jewish businessman and 9/11 survivor Jason Spindler among those killed in Kenya terror attack

A Jewish-American businessman who survived 9/11 was among at least 14 people killed in a terrorist attack in Kenya on Tuesday.

Jason Spindler, originally from Texas, was a Wall Street analyst at the time of the September 11 attack on New York. He subsequently joined the Peace Corps, going on to found a business development firm based in Nairobi.

Mr Spindler was believed to be having lunch at the DusitD2 hotel and shopping compound in the Kenyan capital when gunmen belonging to the Islamist terror group Al Shabaab stormed the hotel complex, carrying out at least one suicide bomb attack in the process and killing at least 14 people. It took Kenyan security forces 20 hours to neutralise the terrorists.

Mr Spindler’s brother Jonathan wrote on Facebook: “It’s with a heavy heart that I announce that my brother, Jason Spindler, passed away this morning during a terror attack in Nairobi. Jason was a survivor of 9/11 and a fighter. I am sure he gave them hell.”