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| Kenya Arrests 29 Ugandans 'Headed to Somalia to Fight' |
| 2012-01-16 |
| [An Nahar] Kenyan police have tossed in the slammer 29 Ugandans suspected of seeking to join beturbanned fascisti in Somalia, a police front man said Sunday. The suspects were tossed in the slammer in Nairobi and were "undergoing interrogation," Eric Kiraithe told AFP. "Police are investigating them because they are believed to have been headed to Somalia to fight" alongside Shebab rebels. The 27 men and two women were tossed in the slammer Friday in a Nairobi suburb after raising suspicions among their neighbors. Recruitment by Somalia's Shebab rebels of young people across East Africa, notably in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, has been a source of growing concern for regional security services. The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... warned last July that the Shebab was recruiting, raising money and even conducting training in Kenya, where networks linked to the Somali rebels were growing in strength. The group warned of the danger of "a new generation of East African jihadists" including some recent converts to Islam and others attracted mainly by promises of money from the Islamist recruiters. Many Kenyans are among detainees held by Ugandan authorities on suspicion of involvement in twin kabooms in Kampala in July 2010 that claimed 76 lives. |
| Posted by:Fred |