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Mwakera Mwajefa and Kevin J Kelley
6 August 2010
TWO more suspects have been arrested in connection with last month's Kampala bombing which killed over 70 football fans as they watched World Cup finals.
This came as the US State Department praised Kenya for cracking down on suspected terrorists in its annual report on terrorism.
Detectives from the Anti-Terrorism Unit in Mombasa raided Kongowea Kwa Karama Village on Friday morning and arrested two people.
"Yes, we have two people in our custody helping us with investigation," Coast provincial police officer Leo Nyongesa said.
A witness from one of the families raided, Ms Mariam Hussein, said police forced their way into her house.
"When the police started banging the door and threatening to break in, we decided to open the door," she said. The officers arrested her husband, Mr Abdulkadir Mohamed Hamis, thinking he was Mr Salmin Mohamed Hamisi.
"They handcuffed my husband before frog-marching him to one of the six vehicles outside the residence," she said.
Her pleas that he was not Salmin fell on deaf ears as the officers ransacked the premises for evidence.
Salmin, who was in another room, surrendered and asked the police to release his brother, Abdulkadir.
He was arrested and taken into custody and Abdulkadir released. The second suspect was arrested in another house.
The raid drew protests from residents, with Muslims for Human Rights director Hussein Khalid terming the raid illegal.
In Washington, the State Department said Kenya had developed a "heightened recognition" of its vulnerability to terrorist attacks and is taking some steps to prevent them, the US State Department said on Thursday.
"Whereas Kenyans have traditionally perceived terrorism as primarily a 'foreign' problem, [they] came to recognise that their own country and society were threatened by violent extremists," the State Department says in its new annual report on international terrorism.
"Kenya did demonstrate increased political will to prevent infiltration into the country and apprehend suspected terrorists, although porous borders make that task extremely difficult," the report adds.
The report details assistance that US counter-terrorism officials have provided to the Kenyan police and armed forces.
It adds, however, that despite these initiatives, "the lack of counterterrorism and anti-money laundering legislation during most of 2009 hindered Kenya's efforts to combat violent extremism."
