American Somerville Mark Ture who was arrested on Thursday night in Mombasa. Police are questioning him and another accomplice in connection with terrorism activities in Africa.
Two people being held by the police in Mombasa for allegedly being major financiers of terrorism activities will be deported to the United States.The couple was flown to Nairobi on Saturday to pick up their two children at their Eastleigh house before being deported.According to sources close to police investigations, the two suspects have a case to answer in the US where they are said to have escaped from custody about seven years ago.
Two suspects
Mark Ture Somerville (American) and Abdi Raha Aki (Somali) were picked up at a hotel in Bondeni last Thursday night by a special police force that had been trailing them for several weeks.
On Friday night, the two were released from the Coast provincial police headquarters after being questioned over the allegations for more than 14 hours.
According to deputy Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) boss Njiru Mwaniki, the police could not continue holding them since they had committed no offence in Kenya.
The pair was picked up near the hotel where a Kenyan allegedly involved in planning the 1998 US embassy bombing in Nairobi was arrested in 2002.
The Kenyan, Mohammed Abdulmalik, is currently being held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.
A source within ATPU said the two suspects had evaded arrest in different countries within and outside Africa. DN
UNBELIEVABLE! I USED TO WORK WITH THIS GUY IN MINNESOTA. HE WAS A BILL COLLECTOR FOR MANY YEARS HERE IN MN.....HE SEEMED LIKE A PRETTY REGULAR GUY! ..... mike smith
ReplyDeleteYa WTF. This guy was on my team at a collection agency in Edina, MN back in 2008. Weird that the story says they escaped from custody 7 years ago, he certainly didn't seem to be in hiding as he was a bill collector and used his real name and passed a background check (as far as I know). Crazy to think he could have been using the agencies resources for terrorism purposes.
ReplyDeleteholy crap... wow, Mark use to hang out w/ me and a bunch of our friends way back in the day. wow
ReplyDeleteLove the beard.
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