By ANTHONY KITIMO and PATRICK MAYOYO newsdesk@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Sunday, August 7 2011 at 22:00
Posted Sunday, August 7 2011 at 22:00
In Summary
- Suspect was accused of hosting al Shabaab recruits, but family says he has no such links
Anti- terrorism police have arrested a suspect who escaped a dragnet on Friday night.
Mr Swaleh Suleiman Sule was arrested ata Mwembe Tanganyika garage in Mombasa.
“The operation took more than five minutes since the suspects were resisting the arrest,” said Mr Juha Heri, who witnessed the 5pm swoop.
Sources said Mr Sule was being sought for allegedly harbouring two suspects arrested in Lamu two months ago on their way to Somalia.
He escaped arrest on Friday when police raided Majengo and Tononoka estates where Mr Ibrahim Rajab Faraj and Mr Suleiman Salim were arrested.
Meanwhile, a US magazine has said that the body of Mombasa-born terror mastermind Saleh Ali Saleh, who was killed by US special forces in September 2009 in Somalia was dumped at sea.
The New Yorker said the fugitive was in a car with other al Shabaab insurgents when US special forces attacked them near Roobow village in Barawe district, 250km south of Mogadishu.
He was suspected of assembling the truck bomb that killed 15 people at Kikambala in September 2002 and fired a missile at an Israeli airliner leaving Mombasa airport.
Former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by the special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May this year, was also buried at sea.
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