Nicaragua on alert for al-Qaida

NICARAGUA’S National Police have declared an alert because of the “possible presence” of two suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network in Central America.

An Interior Ministry news release identified the two as Ahmad Salim Swaydan, who was suspected of involvement an April 2002 plot against the US Embassy in Thailand, and a Yemeni man known only as Altuwiti.

A photo released by Nicaraguan authorities matched that of a man on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list: Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, a 36-year-old Kenyan who was indicted on December 16, 1998, for alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.

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