KENYA: KENYAN COURT REFERS TERROR SUSPECTS TO THE HIGH COURT

Record ID: 352069

  • Title: KENYA: KENYAN COURT REFERS TERROR SUSPECTS TO THE HIGH COURT
  • Date: 5th August 2003
  • Summary: (W4) NAIROBI, KENYA (AUGUST 05, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV ABOUD ROGO MOHAMMED, SUSPECT IN NOVEMBER SUICIDE MOMBASA HOTEL BOMBING, AHEAD OF OTHER SUSPECTS, ENTERING COURTROOM 0.07 2. SV OF SUSPECTS SHAKING HANDS AND WAVING (2 SHOTS) 0.16 3. LV/MCU OF ABOUD ROGO MOHAMMED IN COURT, RAISING CLENCHED FIST (2 SHOTS) 0.29 4. SV OF
  • Embargoed: 20th August 2003 13:00
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  • Location: NAIROBI, KENYA
  • Country: Kenya
  • Reuters ID: LVA7SLOR52AZY0VU0J7LZRLFH7AU
  • Story Text: Kenyan court refers terror suspects to the high court.



    Five men charged in connection with a bomb attack
    on the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa last November appeared
    before a magistrate court in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on
    Tuesday (August 5).

    But Chief Magistrate Aggrey Muchelule, who said his
    court did not have the power to deal with the case, ordered
    the five appear before the High Court on August 7.

    Suspects Kubwa Mohammed Seif, Mohammed Kubwa, Aboud
    Rogo Mohammed, Said Ahmed and Salmin Mohammed, were greeted
    inside the court by their friends and relatives.

    Al Qaeda group claimed responsibility for the hotel
    attack in which at least 16 people, including the three
    bombers, were killed. The attack occurred within minutes of
    a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner leaving
    Mombasa's airport.

    The United States has linked al Qaeda to a 1998 bomb
    attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi in which more than
    200 people were killed.

    Kenyan police have carried out many arrests in Mombasa
    and Nairobi to tighten security in the wake of last
    November's attacks.

    Last November's attacks scared tourists away from Kenya
    for months, hitting a key money-spinning sector of the
    economy. The industry employs some 500,000 people and
    relies on golden Indian Ocean beaches centred on Mombasa,
    as well as game parks.

    Three of the defendants are related through marriage to
    Fa'zul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the FBI's (US Federal
    Bureau of Investigation's) most wanted al Qaeda suspects,
    accused of being the brains behind the 1998 bombing of the
    U.S. embassy in Nairobi and the November 28 attack in
    Mombasa.


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