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in parts of Mombasa on Saturday night as the anti-terror operation spread to the Coast.
Hundreds of officers from the Anti-terrorism Police Unit, General Service Unit and other police forces accompanied by immigration officers swept into Changamwe and Nyali estates in trucks and ordered doors opened. They demanded identification papers and seized those without Kenyan papers but also took away those suspected to have forged Identity Cards.
Police claim most of those arrested had just arrived in Changamwe to hide after sneaking through the police operation in Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate on Friday. Intelligence sources told The Standard that besides aliens, the operation also targeted terror suspects, human traffickers and terror financiers based on intelligence supplied by some businessmen and the Somalia government.
Nominated MP Sunjeev Birdi said the Government should not relent in the anti-terror operation, adding that stopping the crackdown will "allow bully boyz to regroup."
But police also disclosed that a second raid on the Mogadishu Estate in Nyali yielded nothing because targeted aliens had already escaped before the operation. This came amid fears that Al-Shabaab
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faceless myrmidons linked to slain radical islamist Sheikh Makaburi have chosen a firebrand
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holy man from Majid Musa to replace him within Al Hijra, Al-Shabaab's Kenyan affiliate which Makaburi led.
Yesterday, Mombasa Deputy Police Commander Sevelino Kubai denied reports that the aliens fled after receiving a leak on an impending police raid, saying that "the aliens we had targeted in Nyali were not available when we arrived and all their rooms were locked."