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Kenya detains dozen terror suspects -newspaper NAIROBI, Saturday (Reuters) Kenyan security agents rounded up about a dozen terror suspects, including three women, after a week-long operation in a crime-ridden part of Nairobi, the Daily Nation newspaper reported on Saturday. Security agents were investigating possible links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network after the suspects were arrested in the densely populated Eastleigh residential area about 10 km (six miles) from the city centre, it said. Eastleigh is home to thousands of Somali refugees. It was the first time agents from the military and the National Security Intelligence Service were directly involved in an operation against terror suspects. Police and the anti-terror squad were not involved, the paper said. National Security Minister Chris Murungaru, whose office falls directly under the Office of the President which was reported to have coordinated the arrests, could not be reached immediately for comment. Matthew Kabetu, head of the anti-terror police, told Reuters he was not privy to the raids, and said he would have more information on Monday after consultations. sPolice spokesman Jaspher Ombati told Reuters the operation was organised by the office of the president and the police were not involved. The paper said security agents carted off radio cassettes, Kenyan identity cards, passports, books and magazines and other personal documents from the suspects' homes. The crackdown follows a renewal of a travel warning in March by the United States for citizens travelling to 12 countries in eastern Africa, including Kenya, to be alert for attacks. Suicide bombers attacked an Israeli-owned hotel outside the coastal resort of Mombasa in November 2002, a blast that occurred within minutes of a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner taking off from the airport outside Mombasa. Several Kenyan suspects have been charged over the attacks. Kenyan prosecutors blame al Qaeda for those attacks and for the 1998 synchronised bombings of the U.S. embassies in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in neighbouring Tanzania, east Africa's second biggest port.. |
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