Embassy evacuated after terror threat

Operations at the Norwegian Embassy in Nairobi were suspended for the better part of yesterday following a threat from a group linking itself to a terrorist organisation.The group, calling itself ‘Worrier Brave’, sent an e-mail to the embassy offices at Lion’s Place in Westlands, Nairobi, threatening an attack.The building was evacuated for hours as police searched it. The e-mail accused the embassy of backing Kenya to annex the Somalia coast for oil prospecting."We are targeting the interests of Norwegian government in the globe, including hunting (sic) their diplomacies… to using suicide bomb attacks to their embassy in Westlands, their residence and cars using our friends in Kenya," read the e-mail. Similar attackA similar e-mail was sent to The Standard and Daily Nation offices, threatening a similar attack. It read in part: "Nation building and East Africa Standard headquarters in Nairobi are among our target for attacks, please ready (sic) for revenge."But police headquarters dismissed the threat adding that officers were tracking the e-mail source. Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe said officers from the anti-terror unit were investigating the matter."They have found no substance in the threat. The claims are unfounded and we are looking for the source of the e-mail," Mr Kiraithe said.Government Spokesman Alfred Mutua said the counter terrorism centre is analysing the message as part of investigations to authenticate it. He termed the threat alarmist and uncalled for.