Kenyan authorities have identified a man who escaped from police custody earlier this month as a most-wanted terror suspect indicted over two deadly attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, a top police source said Tuesday. The suspect was named as Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a national of the Comoros islands who has a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head. Mohammed has been indicted in a US court over the twin attacks that destroyed the US embassies in Dar Es Salaam and Nairobi, killing 224 people, including 12 Americans. Mohammed had been in custody at a Mombasa police station on August 1 when another terror suspect blew himself up with a grenade, killing a police officer and allowing Mohammed to escape, said a senior anti-terrorism official who requested anonymity.
I heard about the guy blowing up, but the earlier report said that the "suspect" in custody was talking and the guy who boomed himself and the cop was trying to get into the jail in order to kill him. The boomer’s partner was said to have gotten away when he was captured. No mention about the guy in jail escaping or who he was. Major egg on Kenyan cops faces.
| Ever since the Mombasa attacks, Kenya's demonstrated a previously unsuspected degree of ineptitude. You'd think a country that invented the term "mau mau" would be able to deal with a bunch of beturbaned Bad Guys, but they just don't seem overly concerned, despite the number of Kenyakorpses produced... |
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