Patch Editor Recalls the Day She Survived Al Qaeda Terrorist Attack

On the morning of November 28, 2002, Jerusalem Post reporter Kelly Hartog arrived at the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya to check in with a half-dozen other journalists, as part of a local safari travel junket assignment. If not for the actions of the group’s tour guide, she would not have remained alive, come to LA in 2004 and joined the ranks of Patch in the fall of 2010, first as local editor of Mar Vista Patch and, since last week, neighboring Culver City Patch.