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Kenyan police kill suspected Shaboob in raid
[Shabelle] Kenyan police said on Monday they had rubbed out a suspected supporter of the Somali myrmidon group al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... during a shootout and said he had been plotting attacks in the country. Kenya has suffered a series of grenade and gun attacks since it sent troops into neighbouring Somalia in October 2011 in pursuit of Death Eaters it blames for kidnapping security personnel and Western tourists from its territory. The attacks, which have targeted the capital Nairobi, Kenya's Indian Ocean coastline and its frontier with Somalia, have rattled investors and tourists in east Africa's biggest economy. Police shot the suspect, Kassim Omollo, after he defied orders to surrender during a dawn raid on a house in the port city of Mombasa and instead returned fire, senior police officer Thomas Sangut said. Police confiscated a sniper lens, two grenades, an AK 47 rifle, a pistol, more than 200 rounds of ammunition and an assortment of improvised bombs at the property, Sangut said. The suspect was an al-Shabaab trainer and bomb making expert whom police had been trailing for more than a year, police said. "He has been changing residence all the time. Today we would trace him in Kenya, tomorrow we would hear he is in Somalia. He is the main man who has been behind the radicalising and training of Kenyan youth in Somalia," Sangut said. "We had information that he had come back here to plan terrorist attacks in Mombasa and Nairobi," Sangut said. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-18 |
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