'No al-Qaeda link' to Kenya Detainees

World | November 30, 2002, Saturday // 00:00

No connection has yet been established between 12 people detained over attacks on Israeli targets in the Kenyan city of Mombasa and the al-Qaeda network, Kenyan authorities say. A couple from Florida, who were among those held, have been released after the authorities accepted they had no involvement in the bombing of the Paradise Hotel which killed 16 people, including three suicide attackers, on Thursday. United States officials have said they believe a Somali-based Islamic group may have carried out the bombing, which was immediately preceded by a failed missile attack on a nearby Israeli plane. The officials say the group, Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya (AIAI), also known as the Islamic Union, is a prominent militant organisation in the Horn of Africa with links to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

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