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During his stay in Kenya, police said they had evidence that he had been influential in recruiting locals to join the Al Shabaab in Somalia.
Nairobi (Sunatimes)
The Kenyan terrorist who was killed alongside the leader of Al-Qaeda in East
Africa Fazul Mohammed was influential in recruiting locals to join the Al
Shabaab militia group and was once arrested in Kenya.
Police Commissioner of Kenya Mathew Iteere said
the suspect who used the names Musa Hussein Abdi Alias Musa Dhere, Alias
Abdullahi Musa was a dangerous man, having been arrested with explosives in a
house in Nairobi's Eastleigh estate in 2007.
Dhere was arrested soon after a December 11, 2007
raid at a house in Eastleigh where grenades and explosives were found. The
29-year-old terrorist was not in the house at the time, but police pursued him
to Bakarani in Mombasa where he was arrested.
He was later brought to Nairobi and charged at the
Kibera Law courts for being in possession of ammunition without a firearms
certificate.
"He was arraigned at Kibera Law Courts and
charged with three others but were acquitted on the technicality that he was
not present during the search," a statement sent to newsrooms by Police
Spokesman Erick Kiraithe said and blamed the courts for "ignoring the fact
that the accused had ran away to escape criminal responsibility."
Dhere - said to be an Islamic teacher - is
believed to have sneaked back to Somalia soon after the acquittal until last
Wednesday when he was gunned down alongside Fazul.
Records available at Police headquarters show that
Dhere was involved in a shootout in Mogadishu in 2006 after which his right leg
was amputated and fitted with a prosthetic limb.
During his stay in Kenya, police said they had
evidence that he had been influential in recruiting locals to join the Al
Shabaab in Somalia.
While in Nairobi, police said, he was residing in
south B Estate in a house owned by one Omar Awadh Omar currently in Uganda
facing terrorism charges.
"While at the residence, Dhere used to
provide Islamic teaching to Omar Awadh's children. Later he shifted to
Eastleigh," the police statement added.
A profile held by the Anti Terrorism Police Unit
in Nairobi shows that Dhere was born in Wajir district in the Harti, Issack
clan and he is a Sunni Muslim.
Dhere schooled in Township primary and Sabuley
Secondary schools in Wajir before joining the Islamic school of Baiutulmal in
Eastleigh. He later joined Sheikh Ali Sufi College in Mogadishu, Somalia in
2003.
Dhere and Fazul were gunned down last Wednesday by
forces of Somalia's transitional federal government at a suburb in the
outskirts of Mogadishu when they were stopped at a roadblock.
Somalia forces did not immediately know they had
killed Africa's al Qaeda leader until two days later when his identification
documents were found and his DNA samples taken. He had a $5 million bounty on
his head.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton termed
Fazul's killing a "significant blow" to the terrorist group.
Fazul was wanted for organising the 1998 US
embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania where 224 people were killed.
By Bariga Afrika.
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During his stay in Kenya, police said they had evidence that he had been influential in recruiting locals to join the Al Shabaab in Somalia.