Kenya frees American suspected of terrorism links

An American man of Somali origin arrested in Kenya over suspicions of terrorism says police have released him along with two other men.
Suleman Essa said Friday that Kenyan police did not tell him why they arrested him on Thursday as he and the two others boarded a plane headed for Somalia. Kenyan police said Thursday that Essa was on a terror watch list. Essa says he does not belong to a terrorist organization. He did not say why he and the others planned to go to Somalia.
Essa says Canadian citizen Ahmed Ali Hassan and Kenyan citizen Muhammed Hussein Hash were also released Friday.
Many ethnic Somalis who grew up abroad, including in the U.S., have traveled back to Somalia to take part in an ongoing insurgency there.