Kenya held man on terror list ahead of Clinton visit

KENYAN authorities had arrested a man, now charged with attempting to kill a Danish cartoonist, after he arrived ahead of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit earlier this year, a police official said yesterday.

Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe identified the man as Mohammed Muhideen Gelle, and said he was on a terror watch list. His trip to Kenya ahead of Clinton’s August visit had raised red flags and he also was seen associating with other suspects on the Kenyan terror watch list

The man cannot be identified in Denmark due to a Danish court ban. But when asked whether Kenyan authorities had confirmed that the suspect in Denmark was the same man previously in Kenyan custody, Kiraithe replied: “Yes, he’s the one.”