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| Africa: Horn |
| Kenyans probing terror suspects |
| 2004-05-18 |
| Kenyan police said on Tuesday that they were probing possible terrorism links of three "suspicious looking" people arrested over the weekend near the Israeli embassy in Nairobi. "Three people were arrested on Sunday at about 11:30 after they tried to book rooms at the Fairview hotel, near the Israeli embassy, without passports or any other identification documents," Nairobi's Kilimani police chief Richard Ngatia said. Another police official said "they also wanted to book rooms for two people, who are expected to come from Dubai." Ngatia explained that after becoming suspicious when the three failed to identify themselves, the hotel management informed officers from General Service Unit (GSU), a paramilitary wing of the Kenyan police, who were guarding the embassy. "We have handed over the case to anti-terrorism police to investigate if the three, a Kenyan-Somali, a Somali and a Bosnian lady, have any links to terrorism since its is suspicious that they did not have their passports at the time of arrest." "Australian passports of two the people, who claimed they were husband and wife, were later brought to the police station" he said, adding that the third person claimed to be a Kenyan-Somali student, but that he failed to produce identity documents. "We also need to verify whether the two passports are genuine," he explained. Criminal Investigations Department's (CID) spokesperson Gedion Kibunja said that the three people were "suspicious looking characters" arrested near the embassy, a high security facility with a 24-hour GSU guard. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 "Passport? No, no, I was born here, effendi..." |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-05-18 5:32:49 PM |