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State Deports Muslim Cleric

The East African Standard (Nairobi)
NEWS
7 May 2007
Posted to the web 7 May 2007

By Standard Reporter
Nairobi
A muslim cleric accused of having ties with wanted terrorists has been
deported, police sources have confirmed.
On Saturday morning, two anti-terrorist police officers accompanied handcuffed
Mr Imam Ibrahim Mohammed alias Ibrahim Obied on Kenya Airways plane destined
for Comoros islands.
The move comes despite Thursday's High Court ruling in Mombasa restraining both
the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General from deporting the man
believed to be from Comoros islands.
Police insisted the cleric arrested during a counter-terrorist raid has links
with terrorist suspects - Mr Fazul Mohammed and Mr Nabhan Saleh Ali.
Mohammed, 27, was arrested alongside 10 others during a night raid by anti-
terrorist police unit in Guraya.
Police were looking for wanted terror suspect Fazul Mohammed, indicted for the
August 1998 US embassy bombings in Dares Salaam and Nairobi and Ali Nabhan, who
is wanted for questioning over 2002 suicide bombing of Paradise Hotel in
Kikambala, Kilifi.
Eleven people arrested have since been released and police had been holding the
cleric while investigating his possible connection with terrorist and
Guantanamo bay remandee Mr Mohammed Abdul Malik.
According to the US State Department, Abdul Malik confessed involvement in the
2002 twin attacks of Kikambala and Israeli's El al airline plane.

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