Three Kenyans have pleaded not guilty in a Mombasa court to charges that they helped a top al Qaeda suspect escape arrest at the weekend in the resort town of Malindi.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is high on a US wanted list, with a five million dollar bounty, for the 1998 twin bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Those attacks killed more than 220 people and injured thousands. Kenyan police say the Comorros-born Mohammed, who allegedly heads al Qaeda's east African cell, had sneaked last week Living in fear ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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