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| Swede among terrorist suspects held in Uganda |
| 2011-01-02 |
| A Swedish national is among a group of three people arrested on Uganda's eastern border on suspicion of having ties to a terrorist group, according to a local media report. The woman was among three people arrested last Wednesday aboard a bus from Nairobi in Kenya to Kamapal in Uganda on suspicion of links to the Somali terrorist group Islamist Al-Shabaab, according to a report in the Ugandan Monitor newspaper. According to the newspaper's sources the police had received information that the suspects were on their way to Kampala to deploy bombs. Al-Shabaab has previously threatened terror attacks in Uganda and Burundi as the countries have refused to withdraw their forces from Somalia. One of the three arrested, a woman, had two passports, one of which was Swedish. The three suspects were arrested and taken to Kampala to be interrogated further. |
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| Posted by: Frozen Al 2011-01-02 10:14 |