NAIROBI, -- Kenyan police on Tuesday stepped up efforts to arrest one of East Africa's most wanted terror suspect, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who escaped a police dragnet over the weekend.Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe has circulated two photographs believed to be latest images of the suspect as authorities stepped up a massive manhunt. The 32-year-old Mohammed, indicted in the United States for alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, managed to evade police in a raid on Saturday in Malindi, along Kenya's coast. more http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/05/content_8969999.htm
Top Al-Qaeda Suspect Gives Kenyan Police The Slip
Nairobi, Kenya (AHN) - A top al-Qaeda suspect, wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, escaped arrest during a police raid on his hideout in Melindi.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed reportedly left his hideout in the northern coastal town just before police raided it on Saturday night, however, two other suspects were arrested, as was his wife on Sunday.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011828504
Kenya charges 3 in al Qaeda suspect's reported escape
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya charged three people on Monday with helping a top al Qaeda operative escape over the weekend, nearly 10 years after two U.S. embassy blasts he is accused of planning put the militant group on the world stage.
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed has evaded capture ever since his indictment by the United States for the twin attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 240 people on August 7, 1998. more http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL421410520080804?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
Al Qaeda's East Africa operations chief escapes raid in Kenya
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/08/al_qaedas_east_afric.php
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