Kenyan captives in the war on terror

Kenyan captives in the war on terror

Some Kenyan have ended up captives in the war on terror.cite news
url=http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1143991182&cid=4
title=How terror suspects were flown out of Kenya
publisher=East African Standard
author=Ben Agina
date=2008-07-29
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote=One Abdulmalik Mohamed, said to be a Kenyan citizen and suspected of being involved in the bombing of Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, was arrested in Kenya and handed to foreign agents who flew him to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after being held in custody in Mombasa and Nairobi. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastandard.net%2FInsidePage.php%3Fid%3D1143991182%26cid%3D4&date=2008-07-29 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://wikileaks.org/leak/kenya-renditions-and-raila-odinga-mou-2007/horn-of-terror-extraordinary-renditions-in-east-africa-july-6-2007.pdf
title=Horn of terror: Report of US-led mass extra-ordinary renditions from Kenya to Somalia, Ethiopia and Guantanamo Bay January - June 2007
publisher=Muslim Human Rights Forum
author=
date=2007-07-06
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwikileaks.org%2Fleak%2Fkenya-renditions-and-raila-odinga-mou-2007%2Fhorn-of-terror-extraordinary-renditions-in-east-africa-july-6-2007.pdf&date=2008-07-29 mirror] ] The "East Africa Standard" reported on July 29 2008 that 19 individuals suspected of ties to al Qaeda apprehended in Kenya in the winter of 2007 were:"removed from police custody by foreign security agents for interrogation."

"Der Spiegel" reports that Kenyan authorities worked with the USA when it backed an Ethiopian incursion into Somalia around New Year 2007.cite news
url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,488149,00.html
title=Taking the 'War on Terror' to Africa
publisher=Der Spiegel
author=John Goetz, Marcel Rosenbach, Holger Stark
date=2007-06-13
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fworld%2F0%2C1518%2C488149%2C00.html&date=2008-07-30 mirror] ] It reports that as many as 200 American FBI and CIA officers were involved.

A Kenyan Parliamentary report states:

The report states some captives were arrested before being handed over to foreign custody, while others were simply kidnapped.

The 19 Kenyans were among a larger group of captives most of whom were not Kenyans.Captives were rendered to Ethiopia and Somalia.One captive, Abdulmalik Mohamed, was transported to extrajudicial detention in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba.

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