Posted on 09/15/2016 4:50:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Mombasa (Kenya) (AFP) - The widow of a radical imam was arrested Wednesday in Mombasa for alleged links to one of three female assailants shot dead while attacking the Kenyan city's main police station, a police source said.
"She is in custody for questioning because of the communication she had with one of the female terrorists killed" in Sunday's attack, the source said, requesting anonymity. The assailants were alleged to be "sympathisers" of the Islamic State group.
The arrested woman is the widow of Aboud Rogo Mohammed, an imam killed in Mombasa in August 2012 who was until his death the main preacher at the city's Musa mosque, seen as the heart of radical Islam in Kenya.
The imam was accused of recruiting young Kenyans to fight in neighbouring Somalia with Shabaab, East Africa's long-time branch of Al-Qaeda, Islamic State's rivals.
The new arrest brings to four the number of women detained over the weekend attack. Three Somali refugees suspected of sheltering the assailants, who were arrested on Sunday, appeared before a judge on Wednesday.
The three women were brought into court to be charged but police said one of them, Shukri Haji, who is said to be deaf, claimed she could not understand what the sign language interpreter was saying.
Resident magistrate Emmanuel Mutunga ordered the three be detained five more days.
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Mobassa, Kenya? Obammy’s POB is back in the news, eh?
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