Top Kenyan police detectives lay camp in Al Shabaab’s fertile recruiting ground

Image result for alshabab isisoloOfficers from the Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) are in Isiolo to unearth the entire terror network in the region,The county is listed as one of the recruiting grounds for Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia.

Hundreds of youths, according to intelligence sources, were recruited from there. These included high school students.
Some youth, including university students who have also been reported to have disappeared.

The situation is similar in Marsabit, where the now famous ‘Mount Marsabit Warriors’ were lured into Somalia by a teacher who graduated from Garissa University. To date, the whereabouts of the five boys and three girls as well as their female teacher remain unknown.

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Gichunge hails from Isiolo and is one of the many youths lured to join Al Shabaab.

Police believe a cell that had been operating from Isiolo is behind the attack.
The cell had been crushed in the past years but police did not know that Gichunge was still active.

The wife of a terrorist implicated in last Tuesday’s attack on dusitD2 hotel sent her luggage by courier to a town on the border between Kenya and Somalia.Image result for kemunto escaped to somalia

Violet Kemunto Omwoyo sent the luggage that included personal items such as clothes from Nairobi last week and was to collect it in Mandera town on Wednesday – a day after the attack in which 21 people were killed.
Kemunto had lived with her husband, Ali Salim Gichunge – whom the police believe coordinated the attack – in house number E9 in Guango, a gated community in Mucatha, Ruaka, in Kiambu, since March 21, last year.
Last Monday, just a day before the attack, Kemunto, through a pseudo name on Facebook known as Junior Red, had put up a post offering to sell household property, saying the couple was moving out of Nairobi.

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