Police release photos of terrorists planning attack at the coast

WANTED: (L-R) Issa Abdala Kauni, Hussein Said Omar, aka Babli, Abulkadir Abubakar Abdulkadir and Ahmed Said Omar, aka Dogo. PHOTOS | COURTESY 

In Summary

• Also wanted is Issa Abdallah Kauni who went missing from his parents’ home in Mombasa last year, prompting his family to publish posters of “missing person.”
• A dispatch by government described the four as “armed and dangerous,” and appealed for public assistance in arresting them.
• Security agencies have increased surveillance since April 2, when Al-Shabaab terrorists raided Garissa University College and killed 142 students.

By FRED MUKINDA
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The government has released the photographs of four men after intelligence reports linked them to Al-Shabaab and warned they were planning terror attacks this weekend.

Among them is Abulkadir Abubakar Abdulkadir, a brother of one of the three young women being detained by police in Mombasa on orders of the court after they were arrested in Mandera last month while attempting to cross to Somalia allegedly to get married to Al-Shabaab fighters.

Also wanted is Issa Abdallah Kauni, who went missing from his parents’ home in Mombasa last year, prompting his family to publish posters of him as a “missing person”.

Authorities believe he travelled to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab in the company of Mr Abdulkadir.

The government has warned that Al-Shabaab's top command has dispatched the four men to Kenya to carry out attacks at the Coast this weekend.

The other two are brothers — Ahmed Said Omar, aka Dogo, and Hussein Said Omar, aka Babli.

A dispatch from the government described the four as “armed and dangerous,” and appealed for public assistance in arresting them.

Those with information on their whereabouts have been asked to contact the police on 020-2199151 and 0702432877.

Security agencies have increased surveillance since April 2, when Al-Shabaab terrorists raided Garissa University College and killed 142 students.

Since then, the agencies have thwarted an attack in Nairobi in which Al-Shabaab planned to bomb Kenya’s Parliament.