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| Africa: East |
| Kenya Police Seize Weapons Cache |
| 2003-08-11 |
| Kenyan police raided a house Monday in the port of Mombasa where suspected terrorists are thought to have lived, seizing weapons and visa stamps for several countries, the national security minister said. Acting on a tip, police moved in on the house, finding evidence that "those living there were planning ... acts of terrorism," Christopher Murungaru said in a statement. He did not say where the residents were at the time or whether any were arrested. If you don’t have them already, I don’t think they’ll be coming back home. Among the items found were AK-47 assault rifles, a light anti-tank weapon, a grenade, weapons training literature and the visa stamps, he said. What, no holy scripts? Oh, wait, he did mention weapons manuals. Hours earlier, he said, police found a suspicious object at a popular tourist resort north of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean and were working to determine whether it was a bomb. If it’s a bomb, it’ll let you know. Murungaru commended "the members of the public who volunteered information to the security forces." Monday’s raid took place in the same leafy Tudor neighborhood where authorities say militants built the car bomb used to blow up a beachfront hotel north of the port on Nov. 28, killing 13 people, including three Israelis. Nice neighborhood, wonder how property values are doing. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 More info, it was Ali's house: Kenya said it had recovered five light anti-tank weapons and six AK 47 rifles each with 30 bullets during a Monday raid on the house of a man accused of links to al Qaeda who killed himself in a grenade blast this month. Feisal Ali detonated a hand grenade on August 1 in the coastal city of Mombasa, killing himself and a police officer while resisting arrest over the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel near the city last November.Police sources believe Ali, a 20-year-old Kenyan of Yemeni descent, used the house to plot attacks with other accomplices, thought to be foreign nationals. They have been hunting an accomplice who escaped after the blast that killed Ali, but it was not immediately clear why the house was searched Monday, more than a week after his death. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-8-11 2:06:58 PM |