From Creeping Sharia:
Kenyan imam arrested with weapons cache, being member of al Shabaab (video)
Posted on January 31, 2012 by creeping
MOMBASA, Kenya, Jan 30 – A Muslim cleric who was arrested on Sunday in connection with terrorism activities has been charged in court.
Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohammed however denied the charges.
Rogo was accused of being in possession of dangerous weapons at Kanamai village within Kilifi County.
The prosecution said he was found with an AK-47 Rifle, 113 rounds of ammunitions, two hand grenades, two pistols and 102 detonators in circumstances that indicated he was planning to commit a crime.
The accused who was represented by lawyers Patrick Onjaro and Christine Kipsang was also charged with being in possession of firearms without valid certificates.
The Prosecutor, Inspector Samson Kiptum, opposed a plea for the accused to be released on bond. “Police officers are not through with the investigation a day after his arrest and he is likely to flee should be released on bond,” the prosecutor argued.
“The suspect should not be released on bond since he is likely to interfere with witnesses who are yet to record statements with the police,” objected Kiptum.
He said the accused is facing a serious criminal case pending before a Nairobi court in which he’s accused of being a member of an organized criminal gang known as the Al-Shabaab.
Not this clerics first terror-related arrest:
The preacher was first arrested in 2003, alongside three other Kenyans, accused of involvement in the November 2002 suicide bombing of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel, but was acquitted two years later. Twelve Kenyans, three Israelis and three suicide bombers died in the blast. The preacher is alleged to have introduced Fazul Abdullah Mohammed — the late head of Al-Qaeda’s east Africa cell shot dead last year in Somalia’s war-torn capital Mogadishu — to at least one of the men who helped him carry out the twin US embassy bombings in east Africa in 1998.
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