Dutch police free Somali terror suspect

  1. Posted on Thursday 23 September 2010 - 10:50
    Muhyadin
    Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    Dutch police released a Somali-born British man who was arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Prosecutors said the man was freed on Wednesday to depart from the Netherlands. He was arrested over the weekend at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport where he was a transit to Uganda. He arrived from John Lennon Airport in Liverpool to Entebbe, Uganda.
    Dutch police
    He was detained after a tip-off that he was planning to engage in terrorism in Somalia. However, investigators failed to confirm the information.

    Dutch and British authorities questioned the man as well as other witnesses and carried out searches. But "The investigation failed to confirm the information received on Sunday, September 19," Prosecutors said.

    The head of the British secret service MI5, Jonathan Evans, said last week that Al-Qaeda has begun recruiting people in Yemen and Somalia rather than Pakistan.

    According to Mr Evans, the threat from Pakistan has halved, whereas Yemen and Somalia are the new hotbeds of terror.

    The al-Qaida-linked group in Somalia has recruited Somali-Americans to carry out suicide bombings in Mogadishu.

    The Group has already claimed two attacks hit in Kampala which killed at least 76 people watching the World Cup final game.

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