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NAIROBI, Apr 10, 2004 (Hi Pakistan) – Kenyan authorities will next week deport five Somali nationals for alleged links to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
The five are among at least 14 people arrested last month at a Eastleigh, a crime-prone residential district in Nairobi, on suspicion of involvement in various terrorism-related activities in the east African nation. "Kenyan security agents have obtained a deportation order allowing them to repatriate the foreigners. Armed security agents will escort them to the Kenya-Somali border on Tuesday," the Daily Nation said.
The paper said, quoting a source in the office of the president, that one of the detainees is "suspected to have links with terrorist cells operating from Somalia." A senior police officer said that military and intelligence officers "were this week trying to obtain orders to repatriate some Somalis who were arrested in an anti-terrorism swoop last month, because Kenya does not have anti-terrorism laws that would enable prosecutors to directly charge suspects with extremist activities."
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