harriwaa Posted January 17, 2007 Somalia Islamist leader evades arrest By M’MBOLO BULEMI THE chairman of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) Sheikh Shariff Sheik Ahmed escaped arrest by a whisker when Kenyan authorities closed in on him as he and a group of other militiamen attempted to sneak into the country. Kenyan security sources intimated to us that Sheikh Ahmed, was in a group of 22 others who slipped out of a security dragnet on January 13 at Garabey area, along the Kenya-Somali border. It also emerged that about 30 suspected Somali militiamen have been arrested along the Kenya-Somali boarder in the past two weeks following a crackdown by Kenyan security forces. According to security sources involved in the operation, at about 9 am on the material day , the army and police who were patrolling Garabey area while acting on a tip off arrested an injured suspected ICU member, Abdikadir Maalim Mohammed, 19, who confessed to them of having been injured 15 days prior to his arrest. READ MORE : Kenya Times Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
