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The Nation (Nairobi)
May 28, 2007
News Article By Ngumbao Kithi and Abuldsalamad Ali
Five suspects have been arrested at the Coast in connection with terrorism.
Two of those arrested are from the Comoros while the rest are Kenyans.
Police in Kilifi arrested a national of Comoros Islands on Friday after he presented himself to the registrar of persons seeking to acquire a national identity card in Kaloleni District.
The arrests took place in past two days.
Anti-terrorism police arrested the suspect, after a tip-off. He is being held at undisclosed location.
Police sources said another suspect arrested earlier was a madrassa teacher and a part-time imam at the Coast and has since been flown to Nairobi to await deportation to the Comoros.
A senior police officer, who talked to the Nation on condition that he is not named, said two other suspects are being held at the Port police station while another was briefly detained and later released.
Military camp
But Sheikh Mohamed Khalifa, the chairman of the unregistered Islamic Party of Kenya, said while Muslims appreciated the concern on security, they were alarmed over arbitrary arrest of innocent people on suspicion they had links with terrorists.
Meanwhile, the wife of Mr Harun Fazul, one of the most wanted terrorism suspects, and her three children have been released from a military camp in Ethiopia and deported to their home country, Comoros, the Nation has confirmed.
Mrs Halima Badroudine Fazul, 31, was released from the camp on May 4, 2007, and immediately flown to the Comoros after four months in several cells in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia.
Well treated
The 31-year-old woman was deported with children Afiya (11), Lukman (10) and Sumeiya (five) after interrogations that police say yielded little.
In a telephone interview from her Djoiezi-Mohezi home in the Comoros, she said they were fine.
"We were treated very well in Ethiopia. We were given food, water and were allowed to offer the daily five times prayers without hesitation," she said.
However, she claimed the Kenyan police took her money after her arrest in Kiunga on January 9, 2007, when she, her children and others were trying to enter Kenya.
The fate of 20 Kenyans arrested alongside her was unclear yesterday but it is believed they would be charged in Kenya.
