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Kenyan court jails confessed Al Shabaab member for 59 years
2012-09-23
(Sh.M.Network) -- A Kenyan court sentenced a Somali national to 59 years in jail on Thursday after he confessed to being a member of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
rebel group following his arrest in the capital Nairobi last week.

East Africa's biggest economy has been on a heightened state of security since sending troops intoSomaliato crush al-Shabaab, an Islamist group which carried out a double suicide kaboom in neighboring Uganda in 2010.

Abdimajid Yassin, 26, was locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
last Friday when police seized a cache of boom vests, grenades and automatic rifles in an apartment in the Nairobi's Eastleigh district.

Yassin pled guilty to 10 counts of possession of explosives, ammunition and illegal possession of firearms. There was also a charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and one of being in Kenya illegally.

A second suspect locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in the raid pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to the same charges.

Earlier this week police said they believed Yassin intended to carry out a suicide kaboom but provided no further details.

"I have considered the interest of the country and national security of the state ...the accused is not remorseful and I convict him on his own plea of guilty," Magistrate Lucy Nyambura told the court.

Western embassies in Kenya have warned of potential attacks several times in the last nine months.

Suicide bombings inUganda's capital Kampala in July 2010 which killed 79 soccer fans watching the World Cup final were al-Shabaab's first on foreign soil and highlighted both their intent and capability to strike beyond Somalia's borders.

Hundreds of disenchanted Kenyan Mohammedans and Mohammedan converts have been lured into the ranks of al-Shabaab since its Death Eaters launched their insurgency in Somalia five years ago.
Posted by:Fred

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