Two suspected terrorists recently seized by anti-terrorist police officers have strong links with an Al Qaeda operational base in Somalia, a Mombasa court heard yesterday. Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Mrs M N Mwangi said the suspects were arrested because of their alleged links with Al Qaeda base in Somalia which finances terrorism activities. Mwangi, while briefing the court over why four men arrested in Mombasa last week should not be produced in court yesterday, said the suspects should not be released because they were dangerous people.
| Qaeda hard boyz from Somalia? Yeah, that'd would fit my definition of dangerous. |
The court on Friday ordered that the suspects be produced in court by the Commissioner of Police, Brigadier Mohamed Hussein Ali, to explain why they should not be released. The suspects are Abdi Rashid Abshir Hirsi, Yusuf Muzee Issa, Jarma Hassan Buju and Sahre Aden Warsame. They were arrested on different dates last week. The suspects, Mwangi said, were transferred to Nairobi on June 29 for further investigations following emerging information about their network activities in the country. A relative of one of the suspects on Friday successfully applied for their production in the court yesterday through their lawyer, Mr M Abeid.
| "They're simple businessmen in Somalia, yer honor!" |
Mwangi said Hirsi and Yusuf were arrested on June 24, this year at Mwembe Tayari and on being investigated it was discovered they were issued with Kenyan identity cards fraudulently. She said Jarma Buju and Aden Warsame had no documents to show they had legalised their stay in Kenya and were to appear in a Nairobi court charged with being in Kenya illegally. Mwangi revealed that there was strong evidence which links Hirsi and Issa with terrorism activities. |