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| Kenyan police questioning wife of suspect in attacks on Israeli targets |
| 2002-12-16 |
| Kenyan police are questioning the wife of a man suspected to have made the car bomb used in last month's suicide attack at a coastal hotel frequented by Israelis, an official said Monday. Fatuma Nabhan was picked up by police on Saturday at her mother's house in Lamu, a small Indian Ocean port near the Somali border, Deputy Police Commissioner William Langat, the lead Kenyan investigator in the case, said in a telephone interview. After police took Nabhan back to Mombasa, the 17-year-old showed them the house where she and her husband - 23-year-old Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan - lived for the last two years with an unidentified couple, Langat said. Police are searching for Saleh Nabhan and the other couple, all three of whom are believed to be alive, he said. In the house, investigators found "telltale signs" that someone had been making a bomb there, he said. But he refused to elaborate. Investigators do not believe Fatuma Nabhan took part in the attack, but "she knew what they were planning," he said. "She lived in the house." Welcome to the Kenyan prison system. Have a nice life. On the day before the attacks, the Nabhans and the other couple cleared out of the house in Mombasa's leafy Tudor neighborhood, Langat said. Fatuma Nabhan fled to Lamu, 75 miles north of Mombasa, he said. Her husband's whereabouts immediately after the attack remain unclear, but he was seen in Lamu on Dec. 2-3. So he wasn't one of the boomers, huh? A bigger fish then. Langat said witnesses have told investigators Saleh Nabhan may have slipped into Somalia on Dec. 3, but those reports have yet to be verified. Ditched the wife, who he only married to stay in the country, and skipped town. Sounds like a sleeper agent. Be nice to talk to him for a while. |
| Posted by:Steve |