Two under probe over terror funds
American Somerville Mark Ture who was arrested on Thursday night in Mombasa. Police are questioning him and another accomplice in connection with terrorism activities in Africa.
Police in Mombasa are questioning two people suspected of funding terrorism activities.
The American and a Somali were flushed out of a hotel in Bondeni on Thursday night by a special police force, which has been trailing them for weeks.
The hotel is adjacent to another from where a Kenyan, Mohammed Abdulmalik, who was arrested in 2002 in connection with the 1998 bomb attacks in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, was picked up.
The suspect is being held in a US prison in Guantanamo Bay.
Sources within the Anti Terror Police Unit (ATPU), said that the two were picked up from their hotel at midnight on Thursday and that they had been travelling to different countries within and outside Africa.
They had only recently booked themselves in the hotel, the sources said.
Police questioned them for several hours yesterday over claims that they had been key financiers of terror activities on the continent.
They said they believed the two had been raising money in the Diaspora to fund terrorists.
Innocence proof
The unit’s deputy chief Njiru Mwaniki said they had not decided whether or not to charge the two with any crime.
“I cannot disclose any information but we are holding the suspects but we are yet to prove if they are innocent.
“We shall take any further action depending on the information we gather from them,” he said.
By yesterday, the two were still in custody but sources confirmed to Saturday Nation they could be charged in court next week.
In the past few months, several people have been arrested in Mombasa and different parts of the country for allegedly being involved in terrorism activities. Security agents have also intensified patrols on the Kenyan borders to curb terrorism.
