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Kenya arrests Shabab fighter, recovers weapons
[ARABNEWS] Kenyan police incarceratedDrop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a suspected Al-Shabaab  ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... fighter in Mombasa on Tuesday and recovered weapons that had been intended for use in aborted New Year's Eve attacks on the coastal city, a senior government official said. Mombasa County Commissioner Nelson Marwa told a news conference that four other suspects had escaped the raid, including two gunnies from the Somali-based group wanted for major attacks on Kenya since 2013. "These men are behind major plots for attacks in the country and are linked to the Garissa University and Lamu attacks," Marwa said. "They had planned to attack public beaches in Mombasa during the New Year when there were many people, but they were deterred by the level of security we had mounted there." Al-Shabaab killed 148 students in the attack on Garissa University last April. In June 2014, the group killed 65 people over a 24-hour period in and around Mpeketoni in Lamu county, also in Kenya's east. It was also responsible for a raid on Nairobi's Westgate Mall in 2013 that killed 67 people. Kenyan authorities have circulated pictures of suspected al-Shabaab gunnies and offered a 2 million shilling ($19,569.47) reward for information leading to arrests. Al-Shabaab seeks to overthrow the Western-backed Somali government. It has frequently attacked neighboring Kenya in recent years, saying it is retaliating for Kenya's participation in an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping force in Somalia. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-06 |
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