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Police have averted a major biological terror plot using anthrax virus by Kenyan and Ugandan medical students linked to al Shabaab, Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said yesterday. Kenyan detectives arrested the mastermind, Mohammed Abdi Ali, formerly attached to Wote Hospital in Makueni as a medical student.
Boinnet also issued a Sh2 million bounty to anyone with information on the whereabouts of a dangerous terror fugitive Ahmed Hish, a medical student in Kitale.
“From our initial investigations, it has been established that the terror network linked to Mohammed Abdi Ali has been engaged in active radicalisation, recruitment of university students and other youth into terrorism that has links to Isil,” he said. “The same network has been facilitating some youths to leave the country to join terror groups in Libya and Syria,” he added.
Ali was arrested by Ugandan police alongside his accomplice Nuseiba Mohammed Haji. Both studied at Kampala International University. Farah Dagane, a profiled terror suspect, is also on the run. Last month, Interior Cabinet secretary Joseph Nkaissery directed all Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) branches to be highly guarded.
In February, a wanted al Shabaab top commander was killed alongside 10 middle-level commanders and 42 recruits during airstrikes attack by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) operating under the umbrella of Amisom in Somalia.
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