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| Islamic Preacher Nabbed in Hotel Attacks |
| 2003-04-04 |
| Police have arrested an Islamic preacher suspected of involvement in the Nov. 28 suicide attacks on a hotel that killed 11 Kenyans and three Israeli tourists, authorities said Thursday. Suicide + attacks = Islamic preachers Police picked up Aboud Rogo, 34, on Wednesday in the Likoni district of Mombasa and were taking him to Nairobi for questioning, police spokesman Gideon Kibunja said. Truncheon alert! Last month, Mohamed Kubwa, who also is in police custody, told The Associated Press that his cousin Rogo had introduced his family to Abdul Karim — believed to be fugitive al-Qaida operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Note that it's his "Cousin Rogo". What have we said before about terror groups being a family affair? Fazul has been indicted for the simultaneous car bombings outside American embassies in Kenya and neighboring Tanzania in 1988 that killed some 230 people, including 12 Americans. Mohamed Kubwa identified Fazul in an FBI photo, in the clearest indication yet of a link between the Nov. 28 attacks and the embassy bombings. Humm, I must have missed that report. Fazul has been a busy boy. Last week, Mohamed Kubwa and his father were charged with harboring an illegal alien — Abdul Karim. They pleaded innocent, were denied bail and have remained in jail. Both have denied any involvement in the attacks. His father told The Associated Press last month his family doesn't know much about Abdul Karim, who married his teenage daughter before he disappeared in January — only that the man had relatives in Mombasa's Tudor neighborhood, where police believe the bomb used in the Nov. 28 attack was built. This is what happens when you marry your daughter off to the first guy who passes by. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in He found him in Mombasa, in a barroom drinking gin Roland aimed his Thompson gun, he didn't say a word But he blew Van Rogo's body from there to Johannesburg |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-04 15:29:06 |