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in Tanzania.
Emrah Erdogan, a German of Turkish origin who police have linked to the May 28 terrorist attack at Assanands House, was incarcerated
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on Tuesday. The suspect is also known as Salahuddin al-Kurdi.
A police officer told the Nation that they had been contacted by their Tanzanian counterparts over the development.
Police said they were trailing four terror suspects, among them Erdogan, before the May 28 kaboom in Nairobi in which one person was killed and 36 others injured.
Police front man Eric Kiraithe said Erdogan, believed to have entered Kenya through Garissa from Somalia on May 3, was among the four suspects. A device was reportedly placed in a stall by a man posing as a customer.
According to political scientist Dirk Baehr and German media, Erdogan travelled to Wazoo in northwest Pakistain in early 2010 and joined a myrmidon Islamist group.
He then went to Somalia in 2011 and reportedly joined al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
terror group.
The ranks of Al-Shabaab include imported muscle from Kenya, Europe, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistain and the Horn of Africa.
Since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October to pursue Al-Shabaab myrmidons, there have been a string of grenade and kabooms in Nairobi and northern parts of the country.