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| Four Somalis Charged over Kenya 'Light Bulb' Airport Attack | |
| 2014-02-04 | |
[An Nahar] Four Somali men appeared in court Monday to face charges of an alleged attack on a cafe in Nairobi's airport, which police had initially dismissed as an exploding light bulb.
The men were jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! with two kilograms (six pounds) of explosives. Kenyan police chief David Kimaiyo had initially denied there had been a blast but only that "some papers caught fire after a loose light bulb fell into a dustbin that caused panic." No casualties were reported in incident. The four men, Hassan Abdi Mohammed, Mohammed Osman Ali, Yusuf Warsame and Garad Hassan Fer, did not plead as they needed a translator, and were booked to reappear in court on Tuesday. The cafe is attached to the outside of the departure terminal, and security checks at the entrance of the airport have been significantly beefed up in recent weeks. Since Kenyan troops invaded southern Somalia in October 2011 to help oust the neighboring country's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab hard boys, Kenya has been hit by a series of attacks. The Shabaab claimed September's attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall, in which at least 67 people were killed. Grenades have been hurled into restaurants in crowded areas in Nairobi as well as on the popular tourist Indian Ocean coast, and there has been a string of attacks in the remote northeast region bordering Somalia. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The four men, Hassan Abdi Mohammed, Mohammed Osman Ali, Yusuf Warsame and Garad Hassan Fer, did not plead as they needed a translator Youse ain't from around here, are yew? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-02-04 09:17 |