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Kenyan police arrest key Al Qaeda suspect
iht.com ^ | March 9, 2007

Posted on 03/09/2007 4:00:44 PM PST by Dog

NAIROBI: The Kenyan police have arrested a man they believe to be a key Al Qaeda suspect who tried to shoot down an Israeli airliner and helped plan the simultaneous bombing of a hotel in 2002 that killed 15 people, officials said.

The man's identity was not immediately confirmed, but investigators said they believe he is Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a senior official in Kenya's security services told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the matter was classified.

Nabhan is wanted for questioning by the FBI and the Kenyan police for the 2002 attacks and the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people. Nabhan fled to Somalia after the attacks near Mombasa

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ali; keyalqueda; nabhan; saleh; salehnabhan; terrorist
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To: Deo volente

Didn't Barry grow up in Kenya?


41 posted on 03/10/2007 9:21:46 AM PST by RatsDawg
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To: Stultis

How can you know all this good stuff? Do you read the foreign press? Or are you good at reading between the lines and picking up on and linking miscellaneous tidbits?
In any case, I appreciate reading this concise summary of positive efforts, and achievements, by GWB.


42 posted on 03/10/2007 9:36:01 AM PST by Elsiejay
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To: AFPhys
Oh, yeah, and I forgot to mention that the Bush administration had developed an uncommonly close relationship with Kenya, working with it as a key partner in one of the Bush administration's very first foreign policy initiatives: Ending the Second Sudanese (North-South) Civil War.

But that doesn't have anything to do with this either.

Besides, ending that war wasn't very important anyway, apparently -- even though it was one of the longest (1983-2005) and deadliest (2 million civilians killed, 4 million displaced, tens of thousands enslaved) conflicts of the 20th Century -- as the press barely covered the Bush administration's efforts or its success.

And even if it was "important," it wasn't really good, since we all know Bush only tackled this one because the issue was important to American evangelicals, upset because the Southern Sudanese being killed, displaced and enslaved were Christian. We all know that nothing America does is good unless out of purely disinterested (or better yet, contrainterested) multicultural motives.

43 posted on 03/10/2007 9:41:51 AM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Elsiejay
See my preceding also.

I dunno. I guess if you're enough of a news junkie some of it seeps through, and if you're a Republican you might actually notice it. But imagine how little of this the sheeple are picking up on.

My, God. If a president with a "D" after their name had ended one of the worst wars in Africa the press would still not be able to shut up about it. There wouldn't be a single American (who watches that news at all) that wouldn't know all about it. But go out in the street right now and try asking the first African American you meet if they're aware of this at all. Ask them if they know that Bush tripled foreign aid to Africa (actually quintupled it, I'm guesstimating, if you include the AIDs initiative).

44 posted on 03/10/2007 10:28:04 AM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Dog

Again? How many times has the Kenyans arrested this guy? I have counted four or five already.


45 posted on 03/10/2007 2:27:07 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (The Clintons: A Malignant Malfeasance of the Most Morbid)
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To: Deo volente

He sure does bear a resemblance to Obama.


46 posted on 03/10/2007 10:50:11 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: grey_whiskers

Actually they look nothing alike in my opinion, except for the blank stare. Forehead, eyebrows, nose, lips, width of face and head, and shape of head are all different.

The blank stare is exactly the same though.


47 posted on 03/10/2007 10:55:44 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (There once was a dream called "Hippy Beat Down." The mere whisper of it made officers smile.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

That noise you hear is the sound of tears hitting the floor from all the dims that are being forced to see successes in the WoT.


48 posted on 03/10/2007 11:25:07 PM PST by Gator113
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To: kinoxi

I don't think that the Kenyans care about such niceties. As far as they're concerned he is a terrorist and I doubt they care at all about his feelings or comfort.


49 posted on 03/11/2007 6:03:08 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: Dog

I am sure he will be out of jail in two days like that cat in Pakistan.

Unless they put a bullet in his head after some interrogation, these announcements are pretty worthless.


50 posted on 03/12/2007 10:24:53 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Dog

Looks like Barak Obama to me.

Was he on the campaign trail in Kenya?

Is this a Hillary campaign stunt?


51 posted on 03/12/2007 1:00:10 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Siobhan

"Hurray for Kenya!"

Last month I met a guy from Kenya. I asked him what he thought of George Bush.

He said "WE LOVE DAT GUY MAN! DA BEST PRESIDENT MAN !!! "


Honest, I expected a nasty tirade, but the guy absolutly loved George Bush, and his response toward Al Qaida.

We are still respected in the world by people who have to deal with these Islamo Devils.


52 posted on 03/12/2007 1:07:10 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: Deo volente

Is that Obama in college and then in the senate?


53 posted on 03/12/2007 1:14:54 PM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: RatsDawg; rdl6989
"Didn't Barry grow up in Kenya?"

No, but I think his dad was Kenyan. Saleh may be his long lost cousin.

54 posted on 03/12/2007 5:28:56 PM PDT by magellan
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To: magellan

It seems strange to me that a navy ship happens to be stationed and running training exercises right off the coast of Kenya when they found this quack. They are also setting up a free clinic in the area.


55 posted on 03/12/2007 11:19:28 PM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (Seems odd to me!)
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To: keats5
I sit next to a young Kenyan couple most Sundays in church myself. They tell me that about half of their tribe is Christian. They and all their relatives speak perfect English.

We have new Kenyan Christian neighbors in our block. When I asked whether there was unrest from Muslim agitation in Kenya, they scoffed!

56 posted on 03/13/2007 4:15:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: Niuhuru
>>> I doubt they care at all about his feelings or comfort.<<<

A bunch of the Somali "Islamic Courts" al-Qaeda guys fled to Kenya when the Ethopians kicked them out of Mogadishu.

Personally, I hope they wring this guy like a dishrag until he gives up everything in his head. And I hope some of our Spec. Ops guys are there - to learn what the Kenyans extract!!

57 posted on 03/14/2007 1:26:00 PM PDT by HardStarboard (The Democrats are more afraid of American Victory than Defeat!)
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