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| Africa Horn |
| Kenya: Somali Islamists detained After US warning |
| 2006-11-07 |
| (SomaliNet) Several senior Somali Islamist Officials were at the weekend briefly detained by Kenyan authorities after a US warning that the group has threatened suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia, police said on Sunday. IOL reported Monday. According to sources, the Somali Islamists were detained by Kenya's immigration officials on Saturday after a small plane carrying them from the southern Somali port of Kismayo to Mogadishu was diverted for weather reasons and landed by mistake in Nairobi, they said. However, the Somali Islamists 13 detainees in number from Somalia's southern Juba Valley region of which Kismayo is the capital, were released and sent back to Somalia on Sunday after authorities here determined they posed no risk, police said. "After realising that they did not have ill intentions, we deported them today," a senior Kenyan police official said, adding that they had arrived at and departed from Nairobi's Wilson Airport. A Kenyan official reportedly said the men were detained because they had been unable to produce travel documents on their arrival in Kenya, just two days after the US terror warning was issued. |
| Posted by:Fred |