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in a massive security swoop launched after Sunday's twin attacks in Garissa churches.
Garissa district commissioner M.M. Kangi said a combined team of the Kenya Police, Administration Police, National Security Intelligence Service and the paramilitary General Service Unit was conducting an "intensified operation to step up intelligence gathering, flush out Al-Shabaab
... the successor to the Islamic Courts...
sympathisers and foil other potential terrorist plans".
As the crackdown continued, the multinational nature of the operation to combat terrorism in the region became apparent.
The Israeli intelligence service cooperated with their Kenyan counterparts in unmasking Iranian suspects and foiling planned attacks in Nairobi and Mombasa.
According to multiple sources, Kenyan security agents tossed in the slammer
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two Iranians and circulated their photographs to Israeli, American, British and French intelligence services.
Mossad, the Israeli security service, returned a positive identification of the two, who have been arraigned in court for possessing explosives.
In Garissa, the massive security operation is unprecedented.
An unofficial curfew is in force and the town is in a state of virtual lockdown at sunset. Hundreds of coppers are on patrol in the town.
Reacting to claims made by Radio Andalus
| ...What we in the English-speaking world might refer to as Radio Free Spain, were we so silly as to think that appropriate for a local African station... |
-- Al-Shabaab's propaganda station in Kismayu -- that the bully boy group was behind the church massacre, Mr Kangi said Kenya had suspected this all along.