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NAIROBI : Kenyan authorities have arrested more than two dozen suspects wanted for two al-Qaeda attacks, including some sought by the US , a senior government official has said. The suspects, including several alleged masterminds, were accused of taking part in the 1998 car bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi and the November 2002 attack on a coastal hotel in Mombasa , National Security Minister Christopher Murungaru told the independent East African Standard newspaper. Most of the suspects were foreigners and were rounded up by Kenyan authorities and foreign security agencies in a recent anti-terror operation, Murungaru told the...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/13/02 - Bagram, Ganj, Islamabad, Kabul, Kandahar, Kikambala, Mahagir, Mazar-e-Sharif, Mombasa BREAKING: Bagram mine field clearing BREAKING: Ganj, near Kandahar winter coming BREAKING: Islamabad, Pakistan, RAWA rally BREAKING: Kabul, Kandahar BREAKING: Kikambala, Kenya perp BREAKING: Mahagir, Afghanistan BREAKING: Mazar-e-Sharif, Spann memorial ========= Afghanistan - Freed by the USA after the 911 Atrocities ========= ========= Bagram ========= In Bagram, heroes of the 769th Engineering Army on MCVs. In Bagram, custom air cushioned 'moon boots' for demining. ========= Ganj ========= In Ganj, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, winter fast approaches. ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, on...

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Kenya's security agencies were warned four times of an impending bombing a clear eight months before last week's suicide attack near Mombasa, it can be revealed today. They were told a terrorist mission was planned at the Coast; that a bomb had been smuggled into the country; the names of the terror group linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda movement that was responsible; and they were even given the names and pictures of two Iraqi terrorists who planned to enter Kenya from Somalia to carry out the attack. The warnings were sent to Police Commissioner Philemon Abong'o and also...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/30/02 - Baghdad, Al-Dawrah factory, U Deira, Bagram, Viper City, Kabul, buzkashi, Kandahar, 82nd Airborne, Sherzai Training Academy, Mombasa, Kenya, Beit Shean, Israel BREAKING: Baghdad, Iraq - Al-Dawrah factory, al-Nassir factory - missing equipment, cut lines BREAKING: U Deira, Kuwait - 2nd Brigade Combat Team celebrate Thanksgiving BREAKING: Bagram -Viper City, U.S. Army heroes, and 769th Engineering Battalion celebrate Thanksgiving BREAKING: Kabul - view of the markets, bakery, buzkashi BREAKING: Kabul, women FREED BY THE USA attend a conference on violence against women BREAKING: Kandahar - 82nd Airborne and Thanksgiving BREAKING: Kandahar...

The Saudi Press Agency reported on June 18, 2002 the arrests of 11 Saudis, an Iraqi and a Sudanese. All were described as belonging to the Al Qaeda. The Sudanese was reported to have told the authorities he had fired a surface-to-air missile at a United States military plane taking off from a Saudi airbase. The agency said the arrested persons were targeting a number of vital installations and were planning to use explosives and surface-to-air missiles. In Washington DC, an unnamed US official identified the Sudanese man as Abu Huzifa, who was suspected as an Al Qaeda cell leader...