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| Africa: East |
| Kenya’s Most Wanted |
| 2003-08-26 |
| A Comoran suspected to be the leader of a terrorist cell in Kenya has been named as Fazul Abdullah Mohamed. He is also known as Harun Fazul or Abdulkarim, and tops the list of the most wanted terrorists in the country. The list has nine Kenyans named yesterday by police as Fahid Mohamed Ally alias Abu Usama al-Kini, Ahmed Salim Swedan alias Abu Yayha al-Kini, Mohamed Karama Salim, Harun Abdisheikh Bamusa and Mohammed Swaleh Saliman. Others are Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, Issa Osman Issa, Fumo Mohamed Fumo and Salim Samir Baamer. The above list will also cause your spellchecker to vomit. Reports from the National Security Intelligence Service and the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit indicate that Mohammed was believed to be the new local leader of the Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist network. He assumed the leadership of the cell after Wadi el-Hage was arrested and deported to the US for the role he played in the 1998 bomb attack on the US embassy in Nairobi, which left 213 people dead and 5,000 injured. He reportedly rented a house in Runda Estate where the bomb used to attack the embassy was assembled, and left for Afghanistan after overseeing the attack. Intelligence reports indicate the Comoran left Afghanistan sometime in 2001, sneaked back into Kenya the following year and set up base in Lamu under a pseudonym, Abdulkarim. Another graduate of the Afghan School of Mines and RPGs. And to entrench himself in the community, he married Miss Amina Kubwa, 14, a few months before last year’s terror raid on the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Mombasa and the abortive missile attack aimed at an Israeli jet at the Moi International Airport, Mombasa. Miss Amina Kubwa, 14: I see he likes older women. He then went underground after the attack and his whereabouts are unknown. Kenyan security agents believe he might be holed up in the country plotting another attack with the help of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who is hiding in Mogadishu. Sustained intelligence reports over the past three months has established that there was frequent communication between Nabhan and his associates in Kenya. It was based on this information that five terrorist suspects were recently arrested. One was seized after detectives intercepted e-mail communication between him and Nabhan. They arrested someone? Was this before or after one of their suspects boomed himself and a cop while his buddy slipped out the back door of the police station? It is believed that planning for a new terrorist atrocity in Kenya by the group had reached an advanced stage before the gang was scattered after the Mombasa raid. Police seized an arms cache that included five shoulder-launched missiles, a hand grenade and ammunition for AK-47 assault rifles from a flat in the town’s Tudor Estate. One of the Kenyans being sought by the anti-terrorist police - Fahid Mohamed Ally Msalam - is believed to have bought the cars that were used in the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He is also believed to have purchased components of the bomb used in Tanzania. Three others - Mohamed Karama Salim, Harun Abdisheikh Bamusa and Mohammed Swaleh Saliman - are suspected to have been involved in the 1998 attack. Issa Osman Issa, Fumo Mohamed Fumo and Salim Samir Baamer are wanted for the Kikambala attack. Investigations indicate that only the terrorist cell led by Wadih El-Hage - currently serving life imprisonment in the US together with Mohammed Sadiq Odeh, Mohammed Rashed Daoud al-Owhali and Khalfan Khamis Mohammed over the embassy bombing -was active in Kenya. I’d look closer if I was you. |
| Posted by:Steve |